From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: file-symlink-p for remote files? Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 20:49:48 +0200 Organization: University of Duisburg, Germany Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <843cksq0xf.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> References: <847ka5qafi.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <200304081831.h38IVtTG029258@rum.cs.yale.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1049827990 29408 80.91.224.249 (8 Apr 2003 18:53:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 18:53:10 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 08 20:53:08 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 192yDU-0007e7-00 for ; Tue, 08 Apr 2003 20:53:08 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 192yHb-0000Z9-00 for ; Tue, 08 Apr 2003 20:57:23 +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 192yDS-0004Z2-07 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 08 Apr 2003 14:53:06 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 192yCm-0004Hl-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Apr 2003 14:52:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 192yCR-0003dh-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Apr 2003 14:52:06 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 192yCB-00039t-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Apr 2003 14:51:48 -0400 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 192yBi-0007Te-00 for ; Tue, 08 Apr 2003 20:51:18 +0200 Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 192yBh-0007TH-00 for ; Tue, 08 Apr 2003 20:51:17 +0200 Original-Lines: 11 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.090018 (Oort Gnus v0.18) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:W0TXnKsu+i9GFDxw4/M7mQCGBrs= 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:13037 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:13037 "Stefan Monnier" writes: > 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). Now we have to find another way to solve the original problem :-) -- A preposition is not a good thing to end a sentence with.