GNU bug report logs - #18125
file-precious-flag breaks symlinks

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 06:35:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: confirmed

Found in version 24.3.92

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: rgm <at> gnu.org, 18125 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18125: file-precious-flag breaks symlinks
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 16:21:52 +0200
Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> IMO, we could provide the alternative behavior as opt-in, conditioned
> on a new option.  It is not clear to me that everyone will want to
> overwrite the target, so an incompatible change here must be an
> opt-in.

It's a pretty specialised option (which makes it hard to explain), but I
get your point about being backwards-compatible in this area.

So I've now added the new option and adjusted the code.

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