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


From: Michael Albinus
Subject: bug#48349: 28.0.50; Problem in dired with symbolic links to Tramp-syntax files
Date: Wed, 12 May 2021 20:16:58 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

Hi Lars,

> Apparently dired passes symlinks to Tramp in unfortunate ways.
>
> For instance:
>
> (cd /tmp; ln -s /sudo:root@localhost:/tmp/foo bar)
> emacs -Q /tmp/
>
> 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.
>
> I haven't tried to debug either case.

This is a collateral damage of 824d1a57ec8e7c90b01af6665de5a114529170df
in function file-name-non-special. Brrrr :-(

I will try to see how to fix this, w/o loosing the solution for bug#48177.

Best regards, Michael.





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