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From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 28264@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#28264: Accessing source directory through symlink produces false warnings
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 22:41:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87378a9kds.fsf@detlef> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6cd94296-2dd5-ac88-185b-ed7d5d8e5533@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Mon, 28 Aug 2017 21:57:15 -0700")

Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes:

Hi Paul,

> Thanks for the bug report. I reproduced the problem and installed the
> attached patch to fix it. It strikes me, though, that the code still
> won't work in other cases (e.g., symlinks containing ":"), and that
> Emacs probably has other instances of confusion between how it treats
> symlinks and how the OS treats them. I'll CC: this to Michael to give
> him a heads-up about this particular issue, as I'm not really up to
> speed on magic file names.

This special problem does not seem to affect Tramp, tramp-tests tell.

However, the following code is unclear to me:

> +	(concat "/:" file))

What, if file is already quoted? Shouldn't this be

        (file-name-quote file)

Note, that a similar problem I have fixed some days ago in commit
cc7530cae0.

Best regards, Michael.





  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-29 20:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-28 18:25 bug#28264: Accessing source directory through symlink produces false warnings Glenn Morris
2017-08-29  4:57 ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-29 20:41   ` Michael Albinus [this message]
2017-08-30  2:20     ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-30  8:37       ` Michael Albinus

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