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Emacs quietly munges symlink contents

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From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>, 28156 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#28156: Emacs quietly munges symlink contents
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2017 20:28:15 +0200

Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu> writes:

>> We have quoting for these cases.
>
> Quoting does not work for these cases. If I try to rename a symlink to
> the literal string '~eggert' on my machine, Emacs will misbehave as
> described and there is no way to quote the string naming the symlink
> to fix this.

(make-symbolic-link "~/.emacs" "/:/tmp/~eggert")

# ls -l /tmp
[...]
lrwxrwxrwx  1 albinus albinus     20 Aug 20 20:24 ~eggert -> /home/albinus/.emacs

(rename-file "/:/tmp/~eggert" "/:/tmp/~albinus")

# ls -l /tmp
[...]
lrwxrwxrwx  1 albinus albinus     20 Aug 20 20:24 ~albinus -> /home/albinus/.emacs

Best regards, Michael.

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