From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#27085: dired-do-compress on symlinks should bail out with a warning Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 10:34:42 +0200 Message-ID: <87lfwlp525.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> References: <87zidzx330.fsf@jidanni.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="111119"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: 27085@debbugs.gnu.org To: =?UTF-8?Q?=E7=A9=8D=E4=B8=B9=E5=B0=BC?= Dan Jacobson Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 26 10:35:08 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hqvgx-000SlG-QJ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Jul 2019 10:35:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37384 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hqvgw-0003d6-MN for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Jul 2019 04:35:06 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46728) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hqvgt-0003cy-CE for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jul 2019 04:35:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hqvgs-0003tp-3t for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jul 2019 04:35:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:60212) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hqvgr-0003sb-Pt for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jul 2019 04:35:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hqvgr-0001Yu-LS for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jul 2019 04:35:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 08:35:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 27085 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 27085-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B27085.15641300895966 (code B ref 27085); Fri, 26 Jul 2019 08:35:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 27085) by debbugs.gnu.org; 26 Jul 2019 08:34:49 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40797 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hqvgf-0001YA-Dn for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jul 2019 04:34:49 -0400 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]:57446) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hqvgd-0001Y2-Jc for 27085@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jul 2019 04:34:48 -0400 Original-Received: from cm-84.212.202.86.getinternet.no ([84.212.202.86] helo=marnie) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hqvgY-0004Yq-TQ; Fri, 26 Jul 2019 10:34:45 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87zidzx330.fsf@jidanni.org> ("=?UTF-8?Q?=E7=A9=8D=E4=B8=B9=E5=B0=BC?= Dan Jacobson"'s message of "Fri, 26 May 2017 19:36:03 +0800") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:163750 Archived-At: =E7=A9=8D=E4=B8=B9=E5=B0=BC Dan Jacobson 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. --=20 (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no