From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Albinus Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: (fboundp 'make-symbolic-link) on w32 Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:37:31 +0200 Message-ID: <87prpbm1ac.fsf@gmx.de> References: <487FD3FA.4050608@gmail.com> <48805074.5020405@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216409876 2739 80.91.229.12 (18 Jul 2008 19:37:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:37:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier , Emacs Devel To: "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 18 21:38:43 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KJvmo-0001ZB-Tm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:38:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57806 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KJvlw-0000FD-3K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:37:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KJvlp-0000AJ-IA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:37:37 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KJvln-00007k-Q5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:37:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=60698 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KJvln-00007S-Ko for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:37:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:54758) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KJvln-0000tW-5L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:37:35 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 18 Jul 2008 19:37:33 -0000 Original-Received: from p57A20F88.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO arthur.local) [87.162.15.136] by mail.gmx.net (mp041) with SMTP; 18 Jul 2008 21:37:33 +0200 X-Authenticated: #3708877 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+xRh8QwFaxxnibRUTJE7e4TbYSUJIs8yg/SZsRJs 3+Cs/gvqPKH3qd In-Reply-To: <48805074.5020405@gmail.com> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:12:36 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.76 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:100954 Archived-At: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" writes: > Note that symbolic link does not exist on all platform even though > this function still exist for use via Tramp. ^^^^^^^^^ of remote files. Btw, there is even the reverse case: `make-symbolic-link' works for local files, but it doesn't work for remote files (for example, when smb access has been used). Best regards, Michael.