GNU bug report logs - #28156
Emacs quietly munges symlink contents

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2017 10:29:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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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 21:15:14 +0200

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

Hi Paul,

> Here, rename-file quietly expands the symlink contents, which is a
> bug. As far as I can see, one cannot work around the bug by using
> Tramp quoting; for example, (rename-file "/:symlink" "/:/tmp/symlink")
> does the same thing that (rename-file "symlink" "/tmp/symlink") does.

Just to understand what you are speaking about: what do you mean with
"Tramp quoting"? A file name starting with "/:" has nothing to do with
Tramp.

(For the rest of your email I need to run some tests)

Best regards, Michael.
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