Subject: bug#17073: 24.3.50; file-symlink-p doesn't return t as described in the doc

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 19:34:18 -0400

Michael Heerdegen wrote:

> the doc of `file-symlink-p' says:
>
> This function returns t when given the name of a symlink that
> points to a nonexistent file.
>
> But this is not the case here.  Instead, it returns the resolved file
> name, which is a nonexisting file.

Then I guess it means t in the sense of non-nil.