From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: 18125@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18125: file-precious-flag breaks symlinks
Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2020 12:40:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h7p1iyu4.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8boawa800q.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Mon, 28 Jul 2014 02:34:13 -0400")
Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:
> touch foo
> ln -s foo bar
> emacs-24.3.92 -Q --eval '(setq file-precious-flag t)' bar
> change bar and save
> -> bar is no longer a symlink
>
> AFAICS, it has always (since at least 22.3) been like this.
> Does it have to be, though? Why can't it overwrite the target of the link?
This behaviour is still present in Emacs 28.
> In any case, the doc only mentions breaking hardlinks.
>
> Setting find-file-visit-truename non-nil avoids the problem.
I'm not sure whether this is a bug or whether it makes sense. I'm
leaning towards... bug? Perhaps? Anybody got an opinion here?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-04 11:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-28 6:34 bug#18125: file-precious-flag breaks symlinks Glenn Morris
2020-12-04 11:40 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2020-12-04 12:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-20 14:21 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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