From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Tramp: how to handle make-symbolic-link? Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 17:15:20 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200206241939.g5OJdRF26200@aztec.santafe.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1025104712 7013 127.0.0.1 (26 Jun 2002 15:18:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 15:18:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17NEYy-0001p0-00 for ; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 17:18:32 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17NEb8-0003NZ-00 for ; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 17:20:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17NEYg-0006Zu-00; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 11:18:14 -0400 Original-Received: from ns.suse.de ([213.95.15.193] helo=Cantor.suse.de) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17NEVu-0006TY-00; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 11:15:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Hermes.suse.de (Charybdis.suse.de [213.95.15.201]) by Cantor.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB4081461A; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 17:15:21 +0200 (MEST) X-Authentication-Warning: sykes.suse.de: schwab set sender to schwab@suse.de using -f Original-To: rms@gnu.org X-Yow: Yow! I'm out of work...I could go into shock absorbers...or SCUBA GEAR!! In-Reply-To: <200206241939.g5OJdRF26200@aztec.santafe.edu> (Richard Stallman's message of "Mon, 24 Jun 2002 13:39:27 -0600 (MDT)") Original-Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.3.50 (ia64-suse-linux) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:5218 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:5218 Richard Stallman 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. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux AG, Deutschherrnstr. 15-19, D-90429 Nürnberg Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."