bug#48349: closed (28.0.50; Problem in dired with symbolic links to Tramp-syntax files)

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to Tramp-syntax files
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regarding 28.0.50; Problem in dired with symbolic links to Tramp-syntax files
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> 28.0.50; Problem in dired with symbolic links to Tramp-syntax files
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> Tue, 11 May 2021 15:22:59 +0200
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> Apparently dired passes symlinks to Tramp in unfortunate ways.
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> For instance:
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> (cd /tmp; ln -s /sudo:root@localhost:/tmp/foo bar)
> emacs -Q /tmp/
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> will infloop asking for a password -- `C-g' will break, but it'll just
> ask again apparently forever, and you have to kill Emacs to get out of
> the loop.
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> (cd /tmp; ln -s /sudo:root@nosuchhost:/tmp/foo bar)
> emacs -Q /tmp/
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> won't even give you a prompt, but won't display anything -- hanging
> while resolving the "nosuchhost" name?
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> I haven't tried to debug either case.
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> In GNU Emacs 28.0.50 (build 71, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.24, 
> cairo version 1.16.0)
>  of 2021-05-10 built on xo
> Repository revision: aa354dd55b213b86ee8e3aa0365a6ad915838458
> Repository branch: master
> Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12010000
> System Description: Debian GNU/Linux bullseye/sid
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> Configured using:
>  'configure --with-native-compilation'
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> Re: bug#48349: 28.0.50; Problem in dired with symbolic links to Tramp-syntax files
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> Thu, 13 May 2021 14:02:32 +0200
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> Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux)
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> Version: 28.1
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> Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:
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> Hi Lars,
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> >> Apparently dired passes symlinks to Tramp in unfortunate ways.
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> >> For instance:
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> >> (cd /tmp; ln -s /sudo:root@localhost:/tmp/foo bar)
> >> emacs -Q /tmp/
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> >> will infloop asking for a password -- `C-g' will break, but it'll just
> >> ask again apparently forever, and you have to kill Emacs to get out of
> >> the loop.
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> >> I haven't tried to debug either case.
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> > This is a collateral damage of 824d1a57ec8e7c90b01af6665de5a114529170df
> > in function file-name-non-special. Brrrr :-(
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> > I will try to see how to fix this, w/o loosing the solution for bug#48177.
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> Should be fixed now in master. Closing the bug.
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> Best regards, Michael.
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