* bug#4398: 23.1.50; Reading dangling symbolic link gives misleading message
@ 2009-09-11 0:51 Ulrich Neumerkel
2011-07-12 23:26 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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From: Ulrich Neumerkel @ 2009-09-11 0:51 UTC (permalink / raw
To: emacs-pretest-bug
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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.
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* bug#4398: 23.1.50; Reading dangling symbolic link gives misleading message
2009-09-11 0:51 bug#4398: 23.1.50; Reading dangling symbolic link gives misleading message Ulrich Neumerkel
@ 2011-07-12 23:26 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen @ 2011-07-12 23:26 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Ulrich Neumerkel; +Cc: 4398
Ulrich Neumerkel <ulrich@complang.tuwien.ac.at> writes:
> 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".
I've now fixed this in Emacs 24.
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