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bug#28156: Emacs quietly munges symlink contents


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: bug#28156: Emacs quietly munges symlink contents
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2017 13:30:08 -0700
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
Why remove this part?  You also did not mentioned that in NEWS.

The symlink target is a string not a file name, so giving it to file name handler can cause the make-symbolic-link call to be misinterpreted. Revised NEWS in attached patch, with an example.

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