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24.3.50; file-symlink-p doesn't return t as described in the doc

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From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.3.50; file-symlink-p doesn't return t as described in the doc
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 20:33:08 +0100

Hello,

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.

This is with emacs -Q, and with all Emacs versions I tried, which were
23, 24 that come with Debian testing, and a recent built from trunk.

Tested on Debian testing. 


Thanks,

Michael.



In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.2 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.10.7)
 of 2014-03-14 on drachen
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11500000
System Description:	Debian GNU/Linux testing (jessie)

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