Subject: bug#28156: Emacs quietly munges symlink contents

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2017 18:38:40 +0300

> From: Philipp Stephani <[email-masked]>
> Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2017 15:09:01 +0000
> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
> 
> It makes it impossible to use '~' as a directory name. Higher-level interactive interfaces such as Shell and
> Dired can live with such a restriction, but library APIs need to be able to work with arbitrary inputs.

We have quoting for these cases.

> Callers of `make-symbolic-link' will need to expand the target themselves. 

make-symbolic-link is an interactive command, not just a function.