Subject: bug#36598: 26.1; (error "‘/tmp/emacs1000’ is not a safe directory because it is a symlink")

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2019 06:38:41 +0200

[email-masked] (Mark A. Hershberger) writes:

> $ ls -l /tmp/emacs1000
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 mah mah 20 Jul 11 09:53 /tmp/emacs1000 -> /run/user/1000/emacs
>
> Whoever set up the symlink for /tmp/emacs1000 should also change the
> value of server-socket-dir.

I'm unable to reproduce this error -- do you have a recipe starting from
"emacs -Q"?

What is it that triggers the "is not a safe directory because it is a
symlink" error?  Do you have a backtrace?

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