From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Yang Zhang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: tramp 2.1.13-pre messed up symbolic link? Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 02:56:20 -0500 Organization: Mississippi State University Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1213864955 27900 80.91.229.12 (19 Jun 2008 08:42:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:42:35 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 19 10:43:19 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-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 1K9Fjc-0001Qw-Bm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:43:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36697 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K9Fin-0005cG-4Q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 04:42:21 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news-ext.gatech.edu!nntp.msstate.edu!Titan.HPC.MsState.Edu!fz15 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 31 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: titan.hpc.msstate.edu Original-X-Trace: nntp.msstate.edu 1213862181 5535 130.18.14.18 (19 Jun 2008 07:56:21 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@nntp.msstate.edu Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 19 Jun 2008 07:56:21 GMT Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:159614 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:54969 Archived-At: Hi all, I discovered a problem with tramp. Basically I am using emacs 23.0.60.1 on my Ubuntu 8.04 Linux machine (with kernel version 2.6.24-19-generic) with the pre-installed tramp package 2.1.13-pre. I use this to edit files on a remote machine (running Solaris 10). Tramp seemed to have messed up the symbolic links. For example, on the remote machine, I have: test.txt (a normal file) test_link.txt -> test.txt (a symbolic link to test.txt) I use my local emacs to open the "test_link.txt" through tramp. Opening was fine. But any editing and saving would mess things up. After saving changes, the files became: test.txt is unchanged, test_link.txt became a normal file and no longer a symbolic link test_link.txt~ became a symbolic link points to test.txt A while back, I posted an article here that the emacs on windows vista with tramp had the exact problem. At that time, the conclusion was that windows does not support unix symbolic link. But this time, it happened to my Linux machine, weird?? Anyone have any idea and thoughts? Thanks --Yang