From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ulrich Neumerkel Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs Subject: bug#4398: 23.1.50; Reading dangling symbolic link gives misleading message Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 02:51:52 +0200 Message-ID: Reply-To: Ulrich Neumerkel , 4398@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1252631239 443 80.91.229.12 (11 Sep 2009 01:07:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 01:07:19 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 11 03:07:12 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MlubX-0001Bi-Kq for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:07:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34925 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MlubW-0006IE-PS for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:07:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MlubS-0006Ge-Jr for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:07:06 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MlubN-00067q-Ug for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:07:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=34921 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MlubN-00067i-Pl for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:07:01 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu ([138.23.92.77]:43812) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MlubN-0007Lp-8D for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:07:01 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu (rzlab.ucr.edu [127.0.0.1]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id n8B16x5G009956; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:06:59 -0700 Original-Received: (from debbugs@localhost) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n8B103jD008019; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:00:03 -0700 Resent-Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:00:03 -0700 X-Loop: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com Resent-From: Ulrich Neumerkel Resent-To: bug-submit-list@donarmstrong.com Resent-CC: Emacs Bugs 2Resent-Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 01:00:03 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com X-Emacs-PR-Message: report 4398 X-Emacs-PR-Package: emacs X-Emacs-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by submit@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com id=B.12526303296741 (code B ref -1); Fri, 11 Sep 2009 01:00:03 +0000 Original-Received: (at submit) by emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; 11 Sep 2009 00:52:09 +0000 X-Spam-Bayes: score:0.5 Bayes not run. spammytokens:Tokens not available. hammytokens:Tokens not available. 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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 C-x C-f / t m p / t h M-x r e p o r t 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.