Re: Windows Emacs doesn't understand UNIX symbolic link?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
> Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:50:43 +0200
> 
> The problem is not Tramp in this case. If I try to create a symbolic
> link in a remote directory, I get the error
> 
> (void-function make-symbolic-link)
> 
> And indeed, this function does not exist for W32 systems; see the
> check in fileio.c:
> 
> #ifdef S_IFLNK
> DEFUN ("make-symbolic-link", Fmake_symbolic_link, Smake_symbolic_link, 2, 3,
> ...
> 
> Eli: do you see a chance to enable that function for W32 systems? It
> should first check for a file name handler (as it does now), and
> _then_ check whether the native functionality can be used.

Yes, that's what we need: to change make-symbolic-link so that only
its native part is ifdef'ed away on systems without S_IFLNK, and the
file-handler part is available on all systems.