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29.1; dired fails to mark links to . or .. for deletion

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#68814: closed (29.1; dired fails to mark links to . or .. for
 deletion)
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2024 11:56:02 +0000

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From: Devon Sean McCullough <Emacs-hacker2023 <at> jovi.net>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 29.1; dired fails to mark links to . or .. for deletion
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2024 21:36:04 -0600

$ mkdir /tmp/scratch
$ cd /tmp/scratch
$ ln -s . self
$ ln -s .. up
$ ln -s ... ...
$ emacs .
Type the letter d three times.
Dired fails to mark all three files for deletion, unlike prior versions.

In GNU Emacs 29.1 (build 1, x86_64-apple-darwin18.7.0, NS appkit-1671.60
 Version 10.14.6 (Build 18G9323)) of 2023-08-16 built on
 builder10-14.lan
Windowing system distributor 'Apple', version 10.3.1671
System Description:  Mac OS X 10.14.6

Configured using:
 'configure --with-ns '--enable-locallisppath=/Library/Application
 Support/Emacs/${version}/site-lisp:/Library/Application
 Support/Emacs/site-lisp' --with-modules 'CFLAGS=-DFD_SETSIZE=10000
 -DDARWIN_UNLIMITED_SELECT' --with-x-toolkit=no'

Configured features:
ACL GLIB GMP GNUTLS JPEG JSON LIBXML2 MODULES NOTIFY KQUEUE NS PDUMPER
PNG RSVG SQLITE3 THREADS TIFF TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS TREE_SITTER ZLIB

Important settings:
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix

Major mode: Dired by name

Minor modes in effect:
  shell-dirtrack-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  global-eldoc-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  electric-indent-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  buffer-read-only: t
  line-number-mode: t
  indent-tabs-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t

Load-path shadows:
None found.

Features:
(shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message mailcap yank-media puny rfc822
mml mml-sec password-cache epa derived epg rfc6068 epg-config gnus-util
text-property-search time-date mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse
rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045
ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils dired-aux dired dired-loaddefs
sh-script rx smie treesit cl-seq cl-loaddefs cl-lib executable files-x
shell subr-x pcomplete comint ansi-osc ansi-color ring rmc iso-transl
tooltip cconv eldoc paren electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks
lisp-float-type elisp-mode mwheel term/ns-win ns-win ucs-normalize
mule-util term/common-win tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe
tabulated-list replace newcomment text-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register
page tab-bar menu-bar rfn-eshadow isearch easymenu timer select
scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax font-core term/tty-colors
frame minibuffer nadvice seq simple cl-generic indonesian philippine
cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao
korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech
european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese composite emoji-zwj charscript
charprop case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help abbrev obarray oclosure
cl-preloaded button loaddefs theme-loaddefs faces cus-face macroexp
files window text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env
code-pages mule custom widget keymap hashtable-print-readable backquote
threads kqueue cocoa ns multi-tty make-network-process emacs)

Memory information:
((conses 16 55090 8899)
 (symbols 48 6568 0)
 (strings 32 20027 1921)
 (string-bytes 1 574682)
 (vectors 16 13706)
 (vector-slots 8 204004 10049)
 (floats 8 24 56)
 (intervals 56 382 0)
 (buffers 984 16))

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Devon Sean McCullough <Emacs-hacker2023 <at> jovi.net>
Cc: 68814-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#68814: 29.1; dired fails to mark links to . or .. for deletion
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2024 13:54:27 +0200

> Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2024 06:11:50 -0600
> From: Devon Sean McCullough <Emacs-hacker2023 <at> jovi.net>
> 
> On 2024-02-03 04:40, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > That is, would exempting symlinks from the dot-dot rule cause any 
> > problems?
> 
> Seems sensible to me.

Thanks, I've now installed this on the emacs-29 branch, and I'm
closing this bug.

> P.S.  I am uncomfortable with how dired deals with $ touch '. . .'
> but perhaps that can of worms can remain unopened for now,
> LOL, wonder what will happen with $ touch $'foo\nbar'

Yes, that's a separate issue.

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