From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#28156: Emacs quietly munges symlink contents Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2017 18:38:40 +0300 Message-ID: <83h8x2ckqn.fsf@gnu.org> References: <68b2e6ef-bf0b-ebcf-c577-d296952d593f@cs.ucla.edu> <83pobqcnlf.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1503243626 27870 195.159.176.226 (20 Aug 2017 15:40:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2017 15:40:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, michael.albinus@gmx.de, 28156@debbugs.gnu.org To: Philipp Stephani Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 20 17:40:15 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1djSKd-0006CA-BJ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Aug 2017 17:40:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60168 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1djSKj-0007dJ-S1 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Aug 2017 11:40:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52091) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1djSKb-0007cu-4R for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Aug 2017 11:40:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1djSKX-0006ad-US for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Aug 2017 11:40:05 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:38154) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1djSKX-0006aS-RM for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Aug 2017 11:40:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1djSKX-000814-KU for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Aug 2017 11:40:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2017 15:40:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 28156 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 28156-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B28156.150324354230723 (code B ref 28156); Sun, 20 Aug 2017 15:40:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 28156) by debbugs.gnu.org; 20 Aug 2017 15:39:02 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46830 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1djSJa-0007zS-1t for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 20 Aug 2017 11:39:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:32771) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1djSJY-0007yw-1U for 28156@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 20 Aug 2017 11:39:00 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1djSJM-0005oU-D7 for 28156@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 20 Aug 2017 11:38:51 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:41942) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1djSJM-0005oO-A0; Sun, 20 Aug 2017 11:38:48 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:4229 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1djSJL-0005ay-Lb; Sun, 20 Aug 2017 11:38:48 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Philipp Stephani on Sun, 20 Aug 2017 15:09:01 +0000) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:135947 Archived-At: > From: Philipp Stephani > Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2017 15:09:01 +0000 > Cc: michael.albinus@gmx.de, 28156@debbugs.gnu.org > > It makes it impossible to use '~' as a directory name. Higher-level interactive interfaces such as Shell and > Dired can live with such a restriction, but library APIs need to be able to work with arbitrary inputs. We have quoting for these cases. > Callers of `make-symbolic-link' will need to expand the target themselves. make-symbolic-link is an interactive command, not just a function.