Re: Tramp: how to handle make-symbolic-link?

[Andreas Schwab]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

|>     So the LINKNAME argument does not look like a Tramp filename.  But
|>     what if the target of the symbolic link is an absolute filename?
|>     Which of the two kinds of calls do we expect?
|> 
|>     (make-symbolic-link "/address@hidden:/name/of/file" 
"/address@hidden:/path/to/target")
|>     (make-symbolic-link "/address@hidden:/name/of/file" "/path/to/target")
|> 
|> I disagree with the view that the link target is just a string.
|> It is meant to be a file name.

Even Emacs uses symlink targets as non-files, for lock files.

Andreas.

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