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From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 48349@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#48349: 28.0.50; Problem in dired with symbolic links to Tramp-syntax files
Date: Wed, 12 May 2021 20:16:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mtszg6lh.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lf8lo158.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Tue, 11 May 2021 15:22:59 +0200")

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

Hi Lars,

> Apparently dired passes symlinks to Tramp in unfortunate ways.
>
> For instance:
>
> (cd /tmp; ln -s /sudo:root@localhost:/tmp/foo bar)
> emacs -Q /tmp/
>
> will infloop asking for a password -- `C-g' will break, but it'll just
> ask again apparently forever, and you have to kill Emacs to get out of
> the loop.
>
> I haven't tried to debug either case.

This is a collateral damage of 824d1a57ec8e7c90b01af6665de5a114529170df
in function file-name-non-special. Brrrr :-(

I will try to see how to fix this, w/o loosing the solution for bug#48177.

Best regards, Michael.





  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-12 18:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-11 13:22 bug#48349: 28.0.50; Problem in dired with symbolic links to Tramp-syntax files Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-05-12 18:16 ` Michael Albinus [this message]
2021-05-13 12:02   ` Michael Albinus
2021-05-13 12:05     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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