Re: Tramp: how to handle make-symbolic-link?

[Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

>     (make-symbolic-link "/user@host:/path/to/target" "/user@host:/path/to/source")
>
> This should work, and make a link that says /path/to/target.
>
>     (make-symbolic-link "/user@host:/path/to/target" "/otheruser@otherhost:/path/to/source")
>
> It would be ok for this to work, exactly like
>
>     (make-symbolic-link "/otheruser@host:/path/to/target" "/otheruser@otherhost:/path/to/source")
>
> However, it would be ok for it to get an error instead.
>
>     (make-symbolic-link "/user@host:/path/to/target" "/this/is/a/local/source")
>
> This should get an error.

Except for the last one (where I don't know the behavior) I've
implemented these.  If the user/host for source and target of the link
are different, I just ignore the user/host component of the target.

Hm.  I guess that there will be some cryptic error message from the
innards of Tramp for the last one...

kai
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