From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Michael Albinus Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#28156: Emacs quietly munges symlink contents Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2017 21:15:14 +0200 Message-ID: <871so62gql.fsf@detlef> References: <68b2e6ef-bf0b-ebcf-c577-d296952d593f@cs.ucla.edu> <83pobqcnlf.fsf@gnu.org> <83h8x2ckqn.fsf@gnu.org> <87y3qexfeo.fsf@detlef> <8a526a4a-fd11-06c7-8ad4-bc00a667bcd1@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1503256576 30300 195.159.176.226 (20 Aug 2017 19:16:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2017 19:16:16 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Philipp Stephani , 28156@debbugs.gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 20 21:16:10 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 1djVhg-0007Ku-GW for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Sun, 20 Aug 2017 21:15:16 +0200 In-Reply-To: <8a526a4a-fd11-06c7-8ad4-bc00a667bcd1@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Sun, 20 Aug 2017 11:53:55 -0700") X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:eZ0+yoa1/CUvCBxM/mzeuBQDHe/QcbYhvadaNPODH3gH23Y4Q6f IGIJRGInFXituqapGNb2iISfM5Fq0I4uTnQEZwp1nUYm15/Ic782toEGca55+L5zytDK7wm l3uplVRjKDTNFVNo4m/GoTMuiXPSdpBzMmxKQRJ5dn028yeqVaEWn7pl3dSl65TY3ETXToz N4/JKrrYQ3wQvV7uI8HRQ== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:g/CtIf/4f9k=:FJQpNEjqAiKcHk1Tm0FblK MkPNNDA6gLAjPW9eLxYt80EWmPST5wpvqKbnMnhUr8hxrGbSKDB20wRlLAvxxOoC9nwmNwXrH mBGeRGmx3jdknVIdGBTtZWNcBFyu8QjWad4/IizjNiOcpxyJrH8Xkr/Ejz3Jmc+wKrHIkD0/W ISJCMkDJAOvsahVAOOk8EEyCgq3xHrdgR+X0Zo0tnrYmF/YCvJhakKZwT4zk0ZzSvaejtGOKA AaMmiIgKcK+jtUkw20fVb3XZB6kHfiaWTwdiODOQbVP4HZ+79SCE5bt2LzlmBpEdYHT8Nq9iS +D8Mhe7AhR1MLrIonqVTLDWyjR5DjXYKICkUGN12aEwxwKFoHFNYe8QXKRTVaO6Nc6bFtvNGu EnfxNYsRxdkEu4c7tWbbm2I/jq2pBGeZsfW3UwEVfeBjhyq3oDetqGhceeDs1dsgeLG735ttp 4GgccIsqon9Bgtd2DvvNqL1UptCLI5AjDtP9+GR/7WR6fkTs0Nv/HqbpKALwhDEm/Cd34cvSr vCgIF14jKDH6NymBxvHh+80PsEXtUDJ9HILaL0qxTu2bMQPPBUzcOOYh3rqFGZ7lGXNPqGulk jCAqfDR6XDq0z94Rzy9P/h4nc8yqNP2tHKdnAhDc9i9ynHXbTgEABU2fQi1H5JQoHDS11Q2z6 Wpv0t0ubMMlsY+CvCudyHi9ojaRRlsg826o9YuxwRfb0kATfsLGJBG9JL9/FatntkUsyewL1i HLoD+Skd0K/eaieb1VJoFmtG0YcQlKrGuB4oVDotviG8hbCTxgV8lF9DEzW31tX0KzMTJQbK 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:135953 Archived-At: Paul Eggert writes: Hi Paul, > Here, rename-file quietly expands the symlink contents, which is a > bug. As far as I can see, one cannot work around the bug by using > Tramp quoting; for example, (rename-file "/:symlink" "/:/tmp/symlink") > does the same thing that (rename-file "symlink" "/tmp/symlink") does. Just to understand what you are speaking about: what do you mean with "Tramp quoting"? A file name starting with "/:" has nothing to do with Tramp. (For the rest of your email I need to run some tests) Best regards, Michael.