From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Tramp: how to handle make-symbolic-link?
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 13:39:27 -0600 (MDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200206241939.g5OJdRF26200@aztec.santafe.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: vafvg89kc33.fsf@INBOX.auto.emacs.devel.tok.lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de
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.
Assuming that symlinks in the remote file system can only point to
that same remote file system, the former request is possible, and the
latter should get an error because there is no way to make a link to
the local machine's disk.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-24 19:39 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 [this message]
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
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