From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Tramp: how to handle make-symbolic-link?
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 17:15:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <je7kkm6ph3.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200206241939.g5OJdRF26200@aztec.santafe.edu> (Richard Stallman's message of "Mon, 24 Jun 2002 13:39:27 -0600 (MDT)")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
|> So the LINKNAME argument does not look like a Tramp filename. But
|> what if the target of the symbolic link is an absolute filename?
|> Which of the two kinds of calls do we expect?
|>
|> (make-symbolic-link "/user@host:/name/of/file" "/user@host:/path/to/target")
|> (make-symbolic-link "/user@host:/name/of/file" "/path/to/target")
|>
|> I disagree with the view that the link target is just a string.
|> It is meant to be a file name.
Even Emacs uses symlink targets as non-files, for lock files.
Andreas.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-26 15:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-23 19:51 Tramp: how to handle make-symbolic-link? Kai Großjohann
2002-06-23 20:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-06-24 15:48 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-06-23 20:22 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-06-24 19:39 ` Richard Stallman
2002-06-24 20:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-06-25 23:32 ` Richard Stallman
2002-06-26 13:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-06-28 17:39 ` Richard Stallman
2002-06-26 14:46 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-07-08 18:20 ` Richard Stallman
2002-07-10 13:25 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-07-11 12:00 ` Richard Stallman
2002-07-11 16:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-07-12 17:37 ` Richard Stallman
2002-07-12 18:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-07-11 20:28 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-06-26 15:15 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
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