Greg Pfeil <greg@technomadic.org> writes:

Hi Greg,

> I was having an issue where .dir-locals.el on remote machines weren’t getting picked up when they were a symlink. Local symlinks worked fine, and remote non-symlinks also worked.
>
> Digging in, ‘tramp-handle-regular-file-p’ explicitly checks that the first character in ‘file-attribute-mode’ is ?-. However, for symlinks, that character will be ?l.
>
> Modifying ‘dir-locals--all-files’ to check
>
>   (or (file-regular-p f) (file-symlink-p f))
>
> \(which is ostensibly redundant) instead of simply
>
>   (file-regular-p f)

Indeed, there's a bug. Thanks for the report!

> fixes the behavior, since TRAMP will now check with both ‘tramp-handle-file-regular-p’ and ‘tramp-handle-file-symlink-p’. The correct fix is to make ‘tramp-handle-file-regular-p’ match the behavior of ‘file-regular-p’.

The appended patch fixes this. Eli, is it OK to push to the emacs-29 branch?

Best regards, Michael.