GNU bug report logs - #59986
30.0.50; Can't trash file with broken symbolic link

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From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 59986 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support>
Subject: bug#59986: 30.0.50; Can't trash file with broken symbolic link
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2022 01:13:04 +0100

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Meaning that you don't remember whether the file which was already in
> Trash in bug#47135 was or wasn't a symlink?

AFAIU it had been - the original report says:

| In my trash there is this file:
|
|   lrwxrwxrwx 1  175 Jun 18  2019 Rock-and-Mineral-Identification.pdf -> /home/...

I think there is indeed a problem with those `file-exists-p' tests in
`move-file-to-trash' that check whether the file name to add (in the
trash) already exists: when that name is the existing name of a broken
symlink the result is `nil'.

Those tests probably need to handle symlinks specially (using
file-symlink-p I guess).

Michael.

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