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From: Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Recent change to file-chase-links has a bug
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 15:26:57 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E949021.6080803@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 84wui393wr.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de

Kai Großjohann wrote:

> Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org> writes:
>>Now the code is as below:
>>
>>(defun file-chase-links (filename &optional limit)
>>  "Chase links in FILENAME until a name that is not a link.
>>Unlike `file-truename', this does not check whether a parent
>>directory name is a symbolic link.
>>If the optional argument LIMIT is a number,
>>it means chase no more than that many links and then stop."
>>  (let (tem (newname filename)
>>	    (count 0)
>>	    (max (max limit 100)))
> 
> Wild guess: Richard meant (or limit 100) instead of (max limit 100).


That seems like an awfully conservative default.  How about bumping it up to
1024?

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<a href="mailto:&lt;kevin.rodgers&#64;ihs.com&gt;">Kevin Rodgers</a>

  reply	other threads:[~2003-04-09 21:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-09  7:10 Recent change to file-chase-links has a bug Kenichi Handa
2003-04-09 13:49 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-04-09 21:26   ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
2003-04-10  6:22 ` Richard Stallman

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