From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#28156: Emacs quietly munges symlink contents Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2017 14:47:02 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <9d6b82a7-034c-da82-5510-e9cdef3068c4@cs.ucla.edu> References: <68b2e6ef-bf0b-ebcf-c577-d296952d593f@cs.ucla.edu> <83pobqcnlf.fsf@gnu.org> <83h8x2ckqn.fsf@gnu.org> <87y3qexfeo.fsf@detlef> <8a526a4a-fd11-06c7-8ad4-bc00a667bcd1@cs.ucla.edu> <871so62gql.fsf@detlef> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1503265840 27071 195.159.176.226 (20 Aug 2017 21:50:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2017 21:50:40 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.2.1 Cc: Philipp Stephani , 28156@debbugs.gnu.org To: Michael Albinus Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 20 23:50:34 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1djY74-0006Tu-S8 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Aug 2017 23:50:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35431 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1djY7B-0001eK-Dz for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Aug 2017 17:50:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44958) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1djY4j-00089D-T2 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Aug 2017 17:48:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1djY4g-0004Rp-01 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Aug 2017 17:48:05 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:38348) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1djY4f-0004Re-T0 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Aug 2017 17:48:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1djY4f-0003Gu-I8 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Aug 2017 17:48:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Paul Eggert Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2017 21:48:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 28156 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 28156-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B28156.150326563312520 (code B ref 28156); Sun, 20 Aug 2017 21:48:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 28156) by debbugs.gnu.org; 20 Aug 2017 21:47:13 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47029 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1djY3s-0003Fs-Pr for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 20 Aug 2017 17:47:12 -0400 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:56262) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1djY3q-0003Fd-Q1 for 28156@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 20 Aug 2017 17:47:11 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78FE9160882; Sun, 20 Aug 2017 14:47:04 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id E5as94rRLeIy; Sun, 20 Aug 2017 14:47:02 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4F431608B1; Sun, 20 Aug 2017 14:47:02 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id e-Fm2ayAPmBq; Sun, 20 Aug 2017 14:47:02 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (unknown [47.153.184.153]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C00CB160882; Sun, 20 Aug 2017 14:47:02 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <871so62gql.fsf@detlef> Content-Language: en-US X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:135967 Archived-At: Michael Albinus wrote: > Just to understand what you are speaking about: what do you mean with > "Tramp quoting"? A file name starting with "/:" has nothing to do with > Tramp. Sorry, I'm afraid I don't understand Tramp at all but I don't think it matters. By "Tramp quoting" I was referring to the technique you used in https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=28156#23 to create a symlink whose name starts with "~", by prefixing the name with "/:/tmp/". I don't know why the "/:" is there and it doesn't really matter, since the bug in question is not with the name of the symlink, it is with the contents of the symlink.