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Re: ange-ftp appears to have trouble with symbolic links to directories
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Andrew Koenig |
Subject: |
Re: ange-ftp appears to have trouble with symbolic links to directories |
Date: |
Mon, 3 Feb 2003 21:08:34 GMT |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 |
One more thing: I have just noticed that the problem does not occur when
the symbolic link begins with ..
So, for example:
$ cd /tmp
$ rm -f xx
$ ln -s /home xx
If I now try to use emacs to read /localhost:/tmp/xx, it fails.
$ rm xx
$ ln -s ../home xx
Now it succeeds, with or without the patch.
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Andrew Koenig, ark@research.att.com, http://www.research.att.com/info/ark