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: file-symlink-p for remote files? Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 17:24:33 +0200 Organization: University of Duisburg, Germany Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <847ka5qafi.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 1049815752 22777 80.91.224.249 (8 Apr 2003 15:29:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 15:29:12 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 08 17:29:10 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 192v26-0005v3-00 for ; Tue, 08 Apr 2003 17:29:10 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 192v69-00073N-00 for ; Tue, 08 Apr 2003 17:33:21 +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 192v14-0007Jd-09 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 08 Apr 2003 11:28:06 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 192v09-0006BY-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Apr 2003 11:27:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 192uzt-0005Vo-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Apr 2003 11:26:55 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 192uza-0004r5-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Apr 2003 11:26:34 -0400 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 192uz6-0005cp-00 for ; Tue, 08 Apr 2003 17:26:04 +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 192uz5-0005cS-00 for ; Tue, 08 Apr 2003 17:26:03 +0200 Original-Lines: 14 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:a4w7Tbwn5eRUJQGVxXvPjfNjH98= 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:13028 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:13028 Let's say I have a remote system with a symlink, like so: $ ls -ld /foo lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Feb 28 14:51 /foo -> /bar Note that the symlink target is given as an absolute name. Which value should be returned by (file-symlink-p "/user@host:/foo")? ( ) "/user@host:/bar" ( ) "/bar" ( ) something else, please specify: ___________________________ -- A preposition is not a good thing to end a sentence with.