From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: file-symlink-p for remote files? Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 21:10:18 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <84ptnwiz51.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> References: <847ka5qafi.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <200304081831.h38IVtTG029258@rum.cs.yale.edu> <843cksq0xf.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <200304081903.h38J3vGk029460@rum.cs.yale.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1049829338 3817 80.91.224.249 (8 Apr 2003 19:15:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 19:15:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 08 21:15:37 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 192yZF-0000zO-00 for ; Tue, 08 Apr 2003 21:15:37 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 192ydM-0000lH-00 for ; Tue, 08 Apr 2003 21:19:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 192yZ7-0007iD-00 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 08 Apr 2003 15:15:29 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 192yYC-0007Ab-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Apr 2003 15:14:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 192yWr-00061v-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Apr 2003 15:13:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mailout04.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.18]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 192yWH-0005kt-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Apr 2003 15:12:33 -0400 Original-Received: from fwd02.sul.t-online.de by mailout04.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 192yWB-0002bE-05; Tue, 08 Apr 2003 21:12:27 +0200 Original-Received: from lucy (520080024987-0001@[217.81.253.225]) by fmrl02.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 192yW0-1g03pQC; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 21:12:16 +0200 Original-Received: by lucy (Postfix, from userid 1003) id DB27228859; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 21:10:18 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: "Stefan Monnier" In-Reply-To: <200304081903.h38J3vGk029460@rum.cs.yale.edu> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Tue, 08 Apr 2003 15:03:56 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090018 (Oort Gnus v0.18) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-Sender: 520080024987-0001@t-dialin.net X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:13040 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:13040 "Stefan Monnier" writes: >> > I like to think of symlinks as "special files" that can contain arbitrary >> > text (as used for example by Emacs in its file locking protocol), >> > but in practice this poses problems, so I think the right answer is >> > option (1). See for example ange-ftp. >> >> I just checked in a change that changes Ange-FTP from (1) to (2). > > What for, exactly ? Bugfix. There was a problem with tramp and dired and symlinks. I forget what exactly was the problem. But it will be changed back. -- A preposition is not a good thing to end a sentence with.