Re: Cygwin symlinks not handled correctly

Dan> file-truename fails when there's a non-accessible directory Dan> somewhere in the "real" filename. In this case I bet it is Dan> /cygdrive (cygwins magic mapping to c:/ etc.). Dan> My guess is that you could see this on unix as well if you Dan> (1) make a symlink to a file in a nonexisting directory, like this: Dan> M-! ln -s /nonexisting/foo ~/linktest RET Dan> (2) M-: (file-truename "~/linktest") Dan> On cygwin (beta37 and beta45) this produces "/nonexisting" Dan> instead of "/nonexisting/foo", but unfortunately I can't test Dan> this on unix right now... Confirmed for beta45 on Linux. -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ What are those straight lines for? "XEmacs rules."