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: Sun, 20 Aug 2017 20:28:15 +0200 Message-ID: <87y3qexfeo.fsf@detlef> References: <68b2e6ef-bf0b-ebcf-c577-d296952d593f@cs.ucla.edu> <83pobqcnlf.fsf@gnu.org> <83h8x2ckqn.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1503253758 3343 195.159.176.226 (20 Aug 2017 18:29:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2017 18:29:18 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Philipp Stephani , 28156@debbugs.gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 20 20:29:14 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 1djUyF-0000Un-Hq for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Sun, 20 Aug 2017 20:28:18 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Paul Eggert's message of "Sun, 20 Aug 2017 10:54:45 -0700") X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:xW7NHVV/5zv6ghaFwTVl9k4MxZaxUUWSbaqdGCTyOfw8XzjhQsB 9iDZaGOP9UzhCYd/xdz0doVJ4gmG7ZkIvdiyBvqs/f+Bxr/d1IAxuQWU32Zz/4XHJTH3bd9 CUZDxSR5Byq6MjaqGlJtW7N4KcEnKH2TjcKd9jb1Z7lY1lRtS0afu8K5sdguvvDzc5UYtSj Ps0UL3ei488JgJ46pKcLw== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:rLSwilHWSaU=:eP1RbEmocQ0+hu7wRknIOl PvWgOWMmcuukHkrqKc/7XxCotwIcLQkCOTIvWtuqThm+DVkY7L4ikTBH5XyGtyp4rTE65De86 P3zrfloKBDqnWzqZ21QAgl/HAHkG1S0zqffxqE2NWDxJRI8zuha4MsnbUEsg8r34Hkqlj2009 cH1/Db5TTPFqee3wBYCWTKxlwqh7wEZFPlDWYhnWfyN42APX/BdWswGc8AN1e1J+12hwZEhWz +lZusYq50OkMUUQwaJBNOInLGkPtPGFJzqgHlVFTbV3BtLCVDKp5NsCf22eyMI6HBqsD2ofhb Dik9kBpyTsZK1P0dPp1tzQmbAryF++VZ0J+6ZoCei3+uaTD0WRqxWUs2bofWx+6Xj2y5CFrsA DZZiQyoThGeRlgZfsru5YK3dE0rYTfXlsCZ/RuG0M2sNhVs3GvZBS6/Bg6xr0XS8aAOR/eRTB DOUfMF6ds8/eSdwzduKn81d7jc9Su6fvhvDOS6sD5zJ4GsuZVZjBNmxuXobthpsxY6pem+FmJ A32AfYRYdu7TaEyrx/i/3uCi7c8QCMfYGO7qG9E6Aqq6SJ2Dfc1+rBG9zJq14Ejoqt/8bUPTD rqKBXPl/ttaze+EIWEY3QvjXHp4xjzrjIk7n0J6XE60XJV4OhpfU1ZruH7UebqNNuxcyTj39u ipgAcXLTTeBtjRiyvCCgacDlKmAiUIFFDSUvp3hInzqJnVe3Zn2IHwDrtMNZ03EEcEmFlzZb0 BVwe3vLGjRlu77G+6pG17VN69N9glS5GX0pl0GExeB7iAO1LPhLYx9IFs/dnNDBPSswM/IoP 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:135950 Archived-At: Paul Eggert writes: >> We have quoting for these cases. > > Quoting does not work for these cases. If I try to rename a symlink to > the literal string '~eggert' on my machine, Emacs will misbehave as > described and there is no way to quote the string naming the symlink > to fix this. (make-symbolic-link "~/.emacs" "/:/tmp/~eggert") # ls -l /tmp [...] lrwxrwxrwx 1 albinus albinus 20 Aug 20 20:24 ~eggert -> /home/albinus/.emacs (rename-file "/:/tmp/~eggert" "/:/tmp/~albinus") # ls -l /tmp [...] lrwxrwxrwx 1 albinus albinus 20 Aug 20 20:24 ~albinus -> /home/albinus/.emacs Best regards, Michael.