From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs and Windows junctions Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 11:06:01 +0200 Message-ID: <83fva246fa.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83ioey475p.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1424336777 31062 80.91.229.3 (19 Feb 2015 09:06:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 09:06:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Fabrice Popineau Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 19 10:06:10 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YON3h-0003PE-Pw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Feb 2015 10:06:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55389 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YON3g-00018x-EC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Feb 2015 04:06:08 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55020) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YON3S-00018q-95 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Feb 2015 04:05:54 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YON3N-0006yb-B3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Feb 2015 04:05:54 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:47102) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YON3N-0006yV-47 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Feb 2015 04:05:49 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NK000400H9HJS00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Feb 2015 11:05:47 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NK0004KYH9N2OB0@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Thu, 19 Feb 2015 11:05:47 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:183286 Archived-At: > From: Fabrice Popineau > Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 09:55:35 +0100 > Cc: Emacs developers > > At the moment, dired doesn't display them as pointing to somewhere. We don't do that for hard links, either. > I thought that it would be nice to know that some directory is actually a > junction. > It seemed to me that getting this information wasn't very different from > what is done for symlinks. You are talking about their implementation in the filesystem. But that's not what matters from the Emacs user's POV. What matters is the behavior. > OTOH, the user might also want to be able to fully handle them from dired. We can only support features that more-or-less fit into the Posix notions of files and filesystems.