From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: p.stephani2@gmail.com, michael.albinus@gmx.de, 28156@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#28156: Emacs quietly munges symlink contents
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2017 08:58:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b304c70f-1f17-55c1-3df1-0e2da3100d8b@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83y3qdatge.fsf@gnu.org>
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> What if readlink returns a name such as "/ssh:foo@bar:/quux"? A
> symlink cannot have a remote file name as its target, can it?
A symlink target is a string, and can have any bytes in it (other than NUL). So
if FOO is a remote file name then it can have FOO as a target. Of course the OS
won't interpret the remote file name on its own, just as it won't interpret ~ or
$ or whatever, but that is OK and expected.
> read-file-name gets the string from the user, so it's an entirely
> different context.
It was just one example, though it remains a good one. Another example is
(directory-files dir), which does not escape its results even when they begin
with ~. Really, there is no need or good precedent for the sort of escaping that
you propose. It is much simpler (and agrees with the documentation and
intuition) for file-symlink-p to return the results as-is, like directory-files
does.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-21 15:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-20 10:28 bug#28156: Emacs quietly munges symlink contents Paul Eggert
2017-08-20 13:48 ` Michael Albinus
2017-08-20 14:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-20 15:09 ` Philipp Stephani
2017-08-20 15:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-20 17:54 ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-20 18:28 ` Michael Albinus
2017-08-20 18:53 ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-20 19:15 ` Michael Albinus
2017-08-20 21:47 ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-21 7:36 ` Michael Albinus
2017-08-20 19:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-20 21:31 ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-21 2:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-21 8:34 ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-21 14:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-21 15:58 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2017-08-20 19:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-21 17:34 ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-21 17:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-21 20:30 ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-22 7:28 ` Michael Albinus
2017-08-22 16:03 ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-24 11:38 ` Michael Albinus
2017-08-25 5:12 ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-25 12:45 ` Michael Albinus
2017-08-26 13:16 ` Michael Albinus
2017-08-27 1:53 ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-20 22:19 ` npostavs
2017-08-20 23:00 ` Paul Eggert
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