From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stefan Monnier" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: file-symlink-p for remote files? Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 15:03:56 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200304081903.h38J3vGk029460@rum.cs.yale.edu> References: <847ka5qafi.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <200304081831.h38IVtTG029258@rum.cs.yale.edu> <843cksq0xf.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1049828800 931 80.91.224.249 (8 Apr 2003 19:06:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 19:06:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 08 21:06:35 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 192yQV-0000Ed-00 for ; Tue, 08 Apr 2003 21:06:35 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 192yUd-0000if-00 for ; Tue, 08 Apr 2003 21:10:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 192yP5-0000fR-0A for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 08 Apr 2003 15:05:07 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 192yOd-0000V3-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Apr 2003 15:04:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 192yO4-00005O-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Apr 2003 15:04:07 -0400 Original-Received: from rum.cs.yale.edu ([128.36.229.169]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 192yO1-0008P3-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Apr 2003 15:04:01 -0400 Original-Received: from rum.cs.yale.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rum.cs.yale.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h38J3vx6029462; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 15:03:57 -0400 Original-Received: (from monnier@localhost) by rum.cs.yale.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id h38J3vGk029460; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 15:03:57 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 Original-To: kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:13038 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:13038 > > I like to think of symlinks as "special files" that can contain arbitrary > > text (as used for example by Emacs in its file locking protocol), > > but in practice this poses problems, so I think the right answer is > > option (1). See for example ange-ftp. > > I just checked in a change that changes Ange-FTP from (1) to (2). What for, exactly ? Stefan