From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: "積丹尼 Dan Jacobson" <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Cc: 27085@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#27085: dired-do-compress on symlinks should bail out with a warning
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 10:34:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lfwlp525.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zidzx330.fsf@jidanni.org> ("積丹尼 Dan Jacobson"'s message of "Fri, 26 May 2017 19:36:03 +0800")
積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> writes:
> Z runs the command dired-do-compress.
> But when run on
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 jidanni 34 05-26 15:51 local.osm.gz ->
> /cf/updates/no_backup/local.osm.gz
>
> Compress or uncompress local.osm.gz? (y or n) y
I tried this on the Emacs trunk, and it didn't query me for anything.
> Failed to compress/home/jidanni/mapping/taipower/opendata/local.osm.gz
>
> 1. I thought it would try to UNcompress.
> 2. Well it doesn't work on symlinks at all.
> So it should say
> "Sorry that is a symlink. I'm not ready for that".
> Or like
> $ gunzip local.osm.gz
> gzip: local.osm.gz: Too many levels of symbolic links
>
> I.e., warn and give up. Like gunzip.
I get
Failed to compress/tmp/bar.gz
(I've now fixed the missing space and added (un).)
But warn and give up is what dired does here, so I don't think there's
anything to fix. Closing.
--
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2017-05-26 11:36 bug#27085: dired-do-compress on symlinks should bail out with a warning 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
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