Re: file-symlink-p for remote files?

[Kai Großjohann]

"Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/address@hidden> writes:

> I like to think of symlinks as "special files" that can contain arbitrary
> text (as used for example by Emacs in its file locking protocol),
> but in practice this poses problems, so I think the right answer is
> option (1).  See for example ange-ftp.

I just checked in a change that changes Ange-FTP from (1) to (2).
Now we have to find another way to solve the original problem :-)
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