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From: Ulrich Neumerkel <ulrich@complang.tuwien.ac.at>
To: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org
Subject: bug#4398: 23.1.50; Reading dangling symbolic link gives misleading message
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 02:51:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1MluMh-00082s-Vv@a4.complang.tuwien.ac.at> (raw)

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Please write in English if possible, because the Emacs maintainers
usually do not have translators to read other languages for them.

Your bug report will be posted to the emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org mailing list.

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

Create a symbolic link to a nonexistent file.
M-!  ln -s /nowhere/thatfile /tmp

Try to find-file dangling link:

C-x C-f /tmp/thatfile

Now I get a request for confirmation  [Confirm]
After confirming, I get as message

File exists, but cannot be read

Expected: A more specific message like: "dangling link".

Some messages are already informative, like
"file-truename: Apparent cycle of symbolic links for /tmp/circular"

In GNU Emacs 23.1.50.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit)
 of 2009-09-10 on gupu2
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10603000
configured using `configure  '--without-toolkit-scroll-bars' '--prefix' '/opt/gupu/emacs-git''

Recent input:
M-! l n SPC - s SPC / n o w h e r e / t h a t f i l 
e SPC / t m p <return> C-x C-f / t m p / t h <tab> 
<return> <return> M-x r e p o r t <tab> <return>

Recent messages:
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
(Shell command succeeded with no output)
File exists, but cannot be read

Load-path shadows:
None found.





             reply	other threads:[~2009-09-11  0:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-11  0:51 Ulrich Neumerkel [this message]
2011-07-12 23:26 ` bug#4398: 23.1.50; Reading dangling symbolic link gives misleading message Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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