From: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu>
Cc: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Tramp: how to handle make-symbolic-link?
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 16:12:31 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200206242012.g5OKCV904075@rum.cs.yale.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200206241939.g5OJdRF26200@aztec.santafe.edu
> 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.
make-symbolic-link should not prevent you from creating to a link
to a file that doesn't exist. Especially since you can pretty much
never tell whether the file will ever exist or not.
Maybe my point of view is too posix-centric, but I really would be
annoyed if eshell prevented me from creating symlinks just on the
basis that Emacs thinks the target is "invalid". I use invalid
targets all the time (g.e. because the filesystem is currently
mounted at a different location than the "final" one, or because
I want to store non-filenames and have `ls -l' show me that data
or because I know that the data is small and that my filesystem
stores such data more efficiently if I use symlinks rather than
files, ...).
And I don't think my usage pattern is unique.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-24 20:12 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 [this message]
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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