GNU bug report logs - #29231
26.0.90; invald file name for symbolic files

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Message #34 received at 29231 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Vincent Zhang <vincent_chueng <at> hotmail.com>, 29231 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#29231: 26.0.90; invald file name for symbolic files
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2017 23:19:05 -0800

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Paul Eggert wrote:
> Alan Third wrote:
>> Only with symlinks faccessat returns success if it’s pointing to a
>> file and you put ‘/’ on the end.
> 
> This is a well-known problem on macOS, and Emacs is supposed to compile a 
> replacement fstatat function

Whoops, you were writing about faccessat whereas I was thinking about fstatat. 
Please ignore my previous email, and sorry about the confusion.

Apparently macOS faccessat has a problem similar to fstatat. Gnulib did not work 
around the faccessat problem, so I wrote and installed a fix for this into 
Gnulib and installed the attached patch into the emacs-26 branch. Please give it 
a try.

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