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Sat, 17 Sep 2022 11:02:51 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87wna3xoi9.fsf@gmx.de> (Michael Albinus's message of "Fri, 16 Sep 2022 18:39:10 +0200") X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:wF/RtnFfU9fWxCdnW8omkMzARxHAu+BBIWwLJOPMhzfCgXu2geM n+Nb2OtVpdegT5/CnXBbJ50KNSA1KeOP3ldDFAX2w2j6IW742MuAeF6B8R5Kt1ggFGVqgJK EHtDEGOPj/e1E25ZDm9ObjxOKINDUwIj+WI6Pz0K2B+JIcUDoOxfh+m5Pw/YHhEuQZiUv3j 3Q3YPcHTytJV7Q9BVh9Vg== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V03:K0:cDDCd04Ckk4=:289rG8B7htU27vuajvT5Qp wS58w0CklmfbnuSU/RKLSbHNzj1TS0WcEqysjp+8M5AeEbL/mceosEHT8FBuOyo3BpdRqtFzJ dfKnNKlumakv03LF1+fDjcB2KUI5uJEh4mH4Q/74/lUSy/+lLFBJvRY3AG77mnivalJ8BAWlY G2vInE/IqO40tlpjDueackk1Y9ND43GWUj9+P0r8AW2CiJyCs+E6cyWiCOOaRc9oSFtc2uY6A SRVkgymu8sSVk4XhkPfpJvwJyfQcXNSLYtpmQC8x9RMGDHyXeb7skyuqwtxfS+RFEXbTRFN5u ICeTakn5GbHdfaQ+4Hu9SmvFl2K/mDA5WHJ2G0y6G16b3STKbIvUmkYj3a7Kqul/2qjcO4TmM f+u9pvV8D1dh+c2w0+PAR9ElZYrwCjIa7TLOXKRVSyXCYqw7+iwTnxYRJ6qfOHx2gI7wR82lA NzR21foeqpfSQ81Ok4QD64VMREXWRqTjw7EY6BwwXcQgO9gH9K8HXnvgF11uLIiR2L5fcS9PD qhnlKH9ECwCF0QtuOd2jy3Y6ZzRs3RsIsXWWYEwMZbGyTZoNdi7JvUzrOnVT5l89r1d9rhjU3 p04I6ib91jtBrSiHjWsbC18ONeOemjr0isF7TRG+0UybHqoLYJcmlncofZH+o6FjJEmIJsFsO 7Dk2O+YQumcL76wDdz+6Ub8H18JHSyHC/srad5Q+j5/ZyhVK7q7ophbngfd5SNoGJmNpl73S2 UMjgwvFJJ32Yhf9UZQsquGfUREClF5y+gaYynqB+5hu0EJPSFGM6pQQtwi4//+AI1KXKU8DK X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:242853 Archived-At: Michael Albinus writes: Hi Eli, >>> I've pushed the changes for inotify and the remote inotifywait. There's >>> also a new testcase file-notify-test11-symlinks. Do you mind to check it >>> on w32? >> >> I don't think I can: I have XP here, where symlinks aren't supported. >> >> Would someone else please see if the new test works on MS-Windows? > > Hmm. Somewhere, I have a Windows 10 VM lying around. Perhaps I can > convince it to support symlinks in Emacs, and test then. Well, the test fails with --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- Test file-notify-test11-symlinks condition: (file-error "Making symbolic link" "Operation not permitted" "c:/Users/albinus/AppData/Local/Temp/file-notify-testQ4fWLh/file-notify-testoFYuvn" "c:/Users/albinus/AppData/Local/Temp/file-notify-testQ4fWLh/file-notify-testLaRL78") --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- So a simple `make-symbolic-link' doesn't seem to work on MS Windows. What shall I do instead? Best regards, Michael.