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bug#57536: 28.1; filenotify problems on macOS with symbolic links to dir


From: Michael Albinus
Subject: bug#57536: 28.1; filenotify problems on macOS with symbolic links to directories
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2022 15:16:37 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

Hi Eli,

>> So a simple `make-symbolic-link' doesn't seem to work on MS
>> Windows.
>
> It should work if you give your user the privilege of creating
> symlinks.

But the damn User Account Settings don't give me this possibility :-(

> Alternatively, try running Emacs from a cmd.exe window that is "Run as
> Administrator".

That worked, thanks.

Your changes in w32notify.c work as expected, I simply needed to adapt
the test case a little bit. I've added also to skip this test, when
make-symbolic-link doesn't work.

Pushed to master.

Best regards, Michael.





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