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31.0.50; Tramp: file-writable-p broken

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From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
To: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 77402 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#77402: 31.0.50; Tramp: file-writable-p broken
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2025 10:55:14 +0200

Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com> writes:

Hi Gerd,

> In current master, Magit over Tramp/ssh stopped working. The first thing
> I noticed in the log with tramp-verbose == 6 is
>
>   08:33:37.401799 tramp-get-remote-tmpdir (1) # File error: Directory /ssh:mini:/tmp not accessible
>
> This is caused by file-writable-p returning nil for the remote /tmp dir;
> /tmp is a symlink to private/tmp on macOS.
>
> I could bisect this to
>
>   b8104dadbf285d12c356d4cddd28ac3eaf05f263 is the first bad commit
>   commit b8104dadbf285d12c356d4cddd28ac3eaf05f263 (HEAD)
>   Author: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
>   Date:   Sun Mar 16 14:17:38 2025 +0100
>       Tramp: Handle symlinks to non-existing targets better
>
> Before this change
>
>   (tramp-autoload-file-name-handler 'file-writable-p "/ssh:mini:/tmp")
>   => t
>
> After the change, it returns nil.

Could you pls tell, what's the system-type of your local machine, and
what's the OS of the remote machine?

Thanks, and best regards, Michael.

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