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From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: p.stephani2@gmail.com, michael.albinus@gmx.de, 28156@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#28156: Emacs quietly munges symlink contents
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2017 01:34:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6d4110f8-5c70-6c0f-bbad-dd8cd1d193e3@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <834lt1d4yh.fsf@gnu.org>

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> No need to affect its interactive invocation.

Yes, that's what npostavs suggested too. I plan to look into it.


>    (file-symlink-p "/:/tmp/symlink")
> 
> There's special code in file-symlink-p to support this and return a
> quoted name of the symlink target.  For some reason, you wanted to
> remove that code.

The proposed change to file-symlink-p doesn't affect support for file name 
quoting in its argument string. All it affects is the returned string. There is 
no need for it to quote the returned string, just as there is no need for 
read-file-name to quote the string that it returns. Neither function is 
documented to quote its return value, and neither should do so.





  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-21  8:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-20 10:28 bug#28156: Emacs quietly munges symlink contents Paul Eggert
2017-08-20 13:48 ` Michael Albinus
2017-08-20 14:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-20 15:09   ` Philipp Stephani
2017-08-20 15:38     ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-20 17:54       ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-20 18:28         ` Michael Albinus
2017-08-20 18:53           ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-20 19:15             ` Michael Albinus
2017-08-20 21:47               ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-21  7:36                 ` Michael Albinus
2017-08-20 19:21             ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-20 21:31               ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-21  2:34                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-21  8:34                   ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2017-08-21 14:25                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-21 15:58                       ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-20 19:16         ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-21 17:34           ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-21 17:59             ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-21 20:30               ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-22  7:28                 ` Michael Albinus
2017-08-22 16:03                   ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-24 11:38                     ` Michael Albinus
2017-08-25  5:12                       ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-25 12:45                         ` Michael Albinus
2017-08-26 13:16                           ` Michael Albinus
2017-08-27  1:53                           ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-20 22:19       ` npostavs
2017-08-20 23:00         ` Paul Eggert

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