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Re: Tramp: how to handle make-symbolic-link?
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: Tramp: how to handle make-symbolic-link? |
Date: |
Wed, 26 Jun 2002 17:15:20 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.3.50 (ia64-suse-linux) |
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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