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Re: file-symlink-p for remote files?
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Kai Großjohann |
Subject: |
Re: file-symlink-p for remote files? |
Date: |
Wed, 09 Apr 2003 21:57:57 +0200 |
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I've just looked at the new code for file-chase-links. It occurred
to me that it tries hard to deal with the problem that file-symlink-p
returns a string that might not work as a filename.
How about adding another arg to file-symlink-p which specifies
whether to return the link target as-is, or whether to return it as a
filename?
Then file-chase-links wouldn't have to deal with ".." itself; instead
it could just tell file-symlink-p to return a filename, and then work
with that filename.
It would be really easy in the file handlers to return either the
original string or a filename. In Ange-FTP returning a filename
would amount to calling ange-ftp-replace-name-component, and in Tramp
it would amount to calling tramp-make-tramp-file-name.
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- Re: file-symlink-p for remote files?, (continued)
Re: file-symlink-p for remote files?, Richard Stallman, 2003/04/08
Re: file-symlink-p for remote files?,
Kai Großjohann <=