From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Michael Albinus Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#28156: Emacs quietly munges symlink contents Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 09:28:28 +0200 Message-ID: <87tw10qcwz.fsf@detlef> References: <68b2e6ef-bf0b-ebcf-c577-d296952d593f@cs.ucla.edu> <83pobqcnlf.fsf@gnu.org> <83h8x2ckqn.fsf@gnu.org> <83bmnacaob.fsf@gnu.org> <1fafa4ea-424e-53c5-3c91-6dd18fe47f1e@cs.ucla.edu> <83bmn8by40.fsf@gnu.org> <5963ac31-06cc-7784-bf21-46b76bd77c51@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1503386958 32471 195.159.176.226 (22 Aug 2017 07:29:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 07:29:18 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: p.stephani2@gmail.com, 28156@debbugs.gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 22 09:29:12 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dk3ca-0007oU-0E for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Aug 2017 09:29:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47644 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dk3cf-0001AO-2t for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Aug 2017 03:29:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57277) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dk3cY-00019C-JL for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Aug 2017 03:29:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dk3cU-0002XT-LO for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Aug 2017 03:29:06 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:39841) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dk3cU-0002Ww-Ic for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Aug 2017 03:29:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dk3cU-0001uS-96 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Aug 2017 03:29:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Michael Albinus Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 07:29:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 28156 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 28156-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B28156.15033869307321 (code B ref 28156); Tue, 22 Aug 2017 07:29:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 28156) by debbugs.gnu.org; 22 Aug 2017 07:28:50 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48522 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dk3cI-0001u1-Lk for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 22 Aug 2017 03:28:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.17.20]:56260) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dk3cG-0001to-GZ for 28156@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 22 Aug 2017 03:28:49 -0400 Original-Received: from detlef.gmx.de ([212.86.50.207]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx102 [212.227.17.168]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0Las1k-1dHLdf0NU8-00kT8a; Tue, 22 Aug 2017 09:28:31 +0200 In-Reply-To: <5963ac31-06cc-7784-bf21-46b76bd77c51@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Mon, 21 Aug 2017 13:30:08 -0700") X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:qeOPCfrdGsVifip8Exq+A1V8KPCyahIiiwJZIMDTtkua6j9aVke C5d0FvB6GlwVufITh/hz9CKJj65e3hLTSFyTIl8L6/UdUMDK1VrSc9d0oHxykaQZcLI+PK3 3lTW6rQZ+neZbpaojZVEcIvWkiJMUhIge9HnGqx8vQEWUmbJ6g+IQeYmIgx9itj4fximKJn B7oVlmSeUemGPTYaI3m/Q== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:rPH3kaxUJGU=:cY5D04P77gA6BqmrqgGxi/ AH06Tgfqwa1DZgHUnyrkzwsRD7x7p554DPawRUaOhLJK4tCYTc3yv8494M0IudlQm8EMKIeF8 Uah1Z+m+VqMgM8pGhWAeUE6Nc+JhJGx38MwTsQbaWkfbp8FrhE32qwCJ2fqdqF1tIb1Zi1Ujv HmQlbZKuEF9k0UC9hwaxzQqxzTrE3sIZCAwlEFOJFhQ0OaYE3AjzScREiTlwVl26RpcHdF1gS WYRzBxt1FWHSDO+IeM6arpmQVzk6rrniN2WqJUsUrlSYWXDy0bU4pKH3wFKKcdRAiAwBwFLMv VdTV2B00W0rc53kFQG0hGLFgNj0AZ16U6/3KXXibIrIrbuVQKrz7A4+67QuXWpIuhVJjdxXzK vrZrJ3c85d7/6XU5e3OqrnhSCgSg9nkxqggJIZhygTDXBlW6mjZ36yfKcSUElHyVT0kKge1ui EUnvOml3dAuCM64Hg74XUGcw3Up5p5frazKezZpVue0zs/AaTtP9KW7dOsLzDzKz71CZxwJM4 yINHGDhfk/BMHj7jqLxIMlfQWPlYCk2X8y0yopI7CHy6qwAeiYT8+di4MM7Vq/K1J5T88yqgx QANTCLbKZIjGD0BfxbHUgSH5qC+oaRfRTNes5QxlIyNnhbOZ0q51IDMYZd1FwaW+teLfwRH5y zaHe89vzcRrZfN1yo99TXEzk/zCmglHqaWkq5CzVRiyTXzlTjECQqX3XSufiL47T3NjVeG4nE 1T0mUBCTx58+wSbrpY24UBx/XSqyyK25VqSBxb+TEScNE2kmGa2Zkb2dcrhjdd6i/bKolvO8 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: 208.118.235.43 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:136038 Archived-At: Paul Eggert writes: Hi Paul, > The symlink target is a string not a file name, so giving it to file > name handler can cause the make-symbolic-link call to be > misinterpreted. If you want to have an absolute filename as LINKNAME, you typically call (make-symbolic-link (expand-file-name target) (expand-file-name linkname)) In case of remote file names, (expand-file-name linkname) will always return something like "/method:user@host:/path/to/linkname". I doubt, that a user wants to see this literal string as symbolic link. Furthermore, there is the OK-IF-ALREADY-EXISTS argument of make-symbolic-string. This requires to regard LINKNAME as a file name, and not as a literal string. Best regards, Michael.