From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Function to find symlink target Date: Sat, 28 May 2022 06:43:32 +0000 Message-ID: References: <875ylxe98k.fsf@dataswamp.org> <878rqsyo1x.fsf@dataswamp.org> <87wneb690a.fsf@dataswamp.org> <871qwjzqg5.fsf@web.de> <87o7zn65jp.fsf@dataswamp.org> <87ilpvd5s1.fsf@web.de> <87bkvn9x12.fsf@dataswamp.org> <87czg35n3g.fsf@web.de> <871qwif973.fsf@web.de> <87fskv9gm8.fsf@dataswamp.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="9751"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: Emanuel Berg , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat May 28 08:49:33 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nuqGS-0002Ps-Pu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 28 May 2022 08:49:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51686 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nuqGR-0002Ql-5Q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 28 May 2022 02:49:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:50244) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nuqFF-0002Oz-2e for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 28 May 2022 02:48:17 -0400 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:44293) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nuqFD-0005LM-71 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 28 May 2022 02:48:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [154.231.6.13] ([::ffff:154.231.6.13]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.2,128bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 0000000000087C53.000000006291C58C.00002029; Fri, 27 May 2022 23:47:39 -0700 In-Reply-To: <87fskv9gm8.fsf@dataswamp.org> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:137444 Archived-At: Let us say there are 100 websites, there is repository of pictures, videos,= files on computer, but one part must be on websites too, then there is web= site repository on a local computer=2E Images and files are then linked to = website repository on local computer in their corresponding locations, this= saving space, then rsync uploads symlinks as real files to web server=2E In this case symlinks spare huge hard disk space=2E There is no general rule that one should tell to avoid some feature, rathe= r there shall be particular case to consider to see what could be better so= lution=2E Jean