From: "積丹尼 Dan Jacobson" <jidanni@jidanni.org>
To: 27085@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#27085: dired-do-compress on symlinks should bail out with a warning
Date: Fri, 26 May 2017 19:36:03 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zidzx330.fsf@jidanni.org> (raw)
Z runs the command dired-do-compress.
But when run on
lrwxrwxrwx 1 jidanni 34 05-26 15:51 local.osm.gz -> /cf/updates/no_backup/local.osm.gz
Compress or uncompress local.osm.gz? (y or n) y
Failed to compress/home/jidanni/mapping/taipower/opendata/local.osm.gz
1. I thought it would try to UNcompress.
2. Well it doesn't work on symlinks at all.
So it should say
"Sorry that is a symlink. I'm not ready for that".
Or like
$ gunzip local.osm.gz
gzip: local.osm.gz: Too many levels of symbolic links
I.e., warn and give up. Like gunzip.
next reply other threads:[~2017-05-26 11:36 UTC|newest]
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2017-05-26 11:36 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson [this message]
2019-07-26 8:34 ` bug#27085: dired-do-compress on symlinks should bail out with a warning Lars Ingebrigtsen
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