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Accessing source directory through symlink produces false warnings

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Message #10 received at 28264-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>, 28264-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
Subject: Re: bug#28264: Accessing source directory through symlink produces
 false warnings
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 21:57:15 -0700

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Thanks for the bug report. I reproduced the problem and installed the attached 
patch to fix it. It strikes me, though, that the code still won't work in other 
cases (e.g., symlinks containing ":"), and that Emacs probably has other 
instances of confusion between how it treats symlinks and how the OS treats 
them. I'll CC: this to Michael to give him a heads-up about this particular 
issue, as I'm not really up to speed on magic file names.

[0001-Silence-false-alarms-for-symlinks-to-sources.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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