Re: bug with automount-dir-prefix handling in abbreviate-file-name

[Ami Fischman]

Thanks for the details.  It might make sense to expand the
documentation of automount-dir-prefix to be more explicit about what
kind of automounters it is/was meant for.

-a

On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 1:54 AM, Andreas Schwab<address@hidden> wrote:
> Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> automount-dir-prefix was designed for automounters that didn't benefit
>> from as good kernel suppport as is available nowadays, so in order to
>> automount /foo/bar, they mounted it onto /tmp_mnt/foo/bar and then made
>> /foo/bar a symlink to it.
>
> There is also directory-abbrev-alist, which can handle this case as
> well, allowing to have more than one such transformation.
>
> Andreas.
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