From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Evans Winner Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: emacsclient and "nonexistent symlinks" Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2011 15:17:59 -0700 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87lj0pqmso.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1299625757 5753 80.91.229.12 (8 Mar 2011 23:09:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 23:09:17 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 09 00:09:13 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Px61h-00025F-G9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2011 00:09:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46209 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Px5a1-0002y3-Eo for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2011 17:40:37 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news-transit.tcx.org.uk!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 19 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 4xmhsRr5Aeb6D0t2Thq8sQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:4L4LjWxk8p9uIVbDiqlh5sNfgM4= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:185752 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:79902 Archived-At: I have been doing some testing with Emacs lately and I use it in daemon mode and connect remotely using emacsclient. This has caused me to use M-x kill-emacs quite a bit and I think it is this which is causing me to sometimes get files in my filesystem that look like this in dired: .#.bbdb -> thorne@braintron.24188:1298889269 If I hit RET on one of these in dired I get a message that says "File is a symlink to a nonexistent target". I am wondering several things: what are they? how do they get there? is there something I should be doing differently? And more importantly at the moment, is there a way to predicate on whether a file is one of these things? I know there is `file-symlink-p' that will tell me it is a symlink, but is there a way to see if it is also one of these bogus synlinks?