From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Windows Emacs doesn't understand UNIX symbolic link?
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 20:11:44 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uve30kwq7.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <nqzlscd7ak.fsf@alcatel-lucent.de> (message from Michael Albinus on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:50:43 +0200)
> From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
> Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:50:43 +0200
>
> The problem is not Tramp in this case. If I try to create a symbolic
> link in a remote directory, I get the error
>
> (void-function make-symbolic-link)
>
> And indeed, this function does not exist for W32 systems; see the
> check in fileio.c:
>
> #ifdef S_IFLNK
> DEFUN ("make-symbolic-link", Fmake_symbolic_link, Smake_symbolic_link, 2, 3,
> ...
>
> Eli: do you see a chance to enable that function for W32 systems? It
> should first check for a file name handler (as it does now), and
> _then_ check whether the native functionality can be used.
Yes, that's what we need: to change make-symbolic-link so that only
its native part is ifdef'ed away on systems without S_IFLNK, and the
file-handler part is available on all systems.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-02 17:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-01 4:01 Windows Emacs doesn't understand UNIX symbolic link? Yang
2008-04-01 15:02 ` William Xu
[not found] ` <mailman.9785.1207062149.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-04-01 16:54 ` Yang
2008-04-01 18:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-04-02 2:09 ` William Xu
[not found] ` <mailman.9816.1207102163.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-04-02 5:06 ` Yang
[not found] ` <mailman.9824.1207116435.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-04-02 6:33 ` Barry Margolin
2008-04-02 7:50 ` Michael Albinus
2008-04-02 17:11 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2008-04-03 19:45 ` Michael Albinus
2008-04-02 17:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-04-02 17:27 ` Peter Dyballa
2008-04-02 17:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-04-02 22:12 ` Peter Dyballa
2008-04-03 3:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-04-02 18:15 ` Michael Albinus
[not found] ` <mailman.9884.1207157251.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-04-02 23:28 ` Jason Rumney
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