From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: file-symlink-p for remote files?
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 21:58:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1934rZ-000537-00@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <847ka5qafi.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> (kai.grossjohann@gmx.net)
file-symlink-p should return the exact link target. (When the target
is relative, file-symlink-p returns the relative name.)
I corrected the doc string.
Because it is useful to be able to find the file name that the link
points to, I just gave file-chase-links an optional argument to
specify the maximum number of links to chase.
Meanwhile, I think it is necessary to modify file-chase-links and
file-truename to do something special for remote symbolic links.
Could you do that?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-09 1:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-08 15:24 file-symlink-p for remote files? Kai Großjohann
2003-04-08 18:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-04-08 18:49 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-04-08 19:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-04-08 19:10 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-04-08 19:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-04-09 5:39 ` Richard Stallman
2003-04-09 1:58 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2003-04-09 12:56 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-04-09 19:29 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-04-10 6:22 ` Richard Stallman
2003-04-09 19:57 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-04-10 22:47 ` Richard Stallman
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