From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: file-symlink-p for remote files? Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 02:22:39 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <847ka5qafi.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <84k7e3rfrj.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1049956561 11840 80.91.224.249 (10 Apr 2003 06:36:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 06:36:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 10 08:35:57 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 193VfB-00034F-00 for ; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 08:35:57 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 193Vk1-00046E-00 for ; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 08:40:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 193VdL-0007b8-0E for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 02:34:04 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 193VTp-0004Bs-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 02:24:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 193VTf-00041F-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 02:24:04 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 193VSK-0003kq-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 02:22:40 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.10) id 193VSJ-0003OH-00; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 02:22:39 -0400 Original-To: kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) In-reply-to: <84k7e3rfrj.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> (kai.grossjohann@gmx.net) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:13107 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:13107 I confess that I'm rather surprised by this decision. It appears to be inconsistent with another decision on make-symbolic-link that you took some months ago. Alas, I don't remember that issue at all. The question is, are they really inconsistent? It seems to me that the target of a symlink should either be interpreted as a string by both functions, or it should be interpreted as a filename by both functions. I am not sure whether to agree. What is the concrete issue as regards make-symbolic-link? What is the case in which there's a question about what is best for it to do?