Dan, I think this was your fix. Any chance you can re-fix? Thanks andy At 03:13 PM 3/15/01 +0000, Philip Aston wrote: >This bug report will be sent to the XEmacs Development Team, > not to your local site managers!! >Please write in English, because the XEmacs maintainers do not have >translators to read other languages for them. > > In XEmacs 21.2 (beta45) "Thelxepeia (GTK Inside)" [Lucid] > (i686-pc-cygwin) of Thu Mar 15 2001 on PASTON > configured using `configure --with-dragndrop > --site-includes=/usr/include/w32api --debug=no --error-checking=no' > >Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug >and the precise symptoms of the bug: > > >I symlink init.el, custom.el and others to a shared FAT partition (I >run cygwin and linux on a dual boot machine): > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 philipa None 48 Feb 26 17:16 custom.el -> >/share/home/philipa/.xemacs/custom.el > lrwxrwxrwx 1 philipa None 49 Feb 26 17:16 info.notes -> >/share/home/philipa/.xemacs/info.notes > lrwxrwxrwx 1 philipa None 46 Feb 26 17:15 init.el -> >/share/home/philipa/.xemacs/init.el > > >This has shown up a regression in b45 that didn't occur in b37. > > > (file-truename "~/.xemacs/custom.el") > => "/share" > > (file-truename "~/.xemacs/init.el") > => "/share" > > >Needless to say, chaos ensues. > > >Recent keystrokes: > >M-x b u TAB g TAB M-BS s u b TAB BS BS BS misc-user >S y u BS m l i n k s SPC a n d SPC M-BS M-BS C y g >w i n SPC s y m l i n k s SPC m BS n o t SPC p a r >s e d SPC c o r r e c t l y M-left M-left M-right M-BS >h a m n BS BS n d l e d RET left right C-g M-x up C-g >C-g misc-user > > >Recent messages (most recent first): > >Parsing /home/philipa/.mailrc... >Loading mail-abbrevs...done >Loading mail-abbrevs... >Quit >Quit >Quit >Cannot switch buffers in minibuffer window >Loading emacsbug...done >Loading emacsbug... >Making completion list...

Dan, I think this was your fix. Any chance you can re-fix? Thanks andy

I've actually found a fix, after a few failed attempts (see earlier message...). I also include a small fix for native windows (drive letters aren't lowercased by file-truename for nonexisting files). Here goes: try it out! /dan 2001-03-20 Dan Holmsand <dan(a)eyebee.com&gt; * realpath.c (xrealpath): Make file-truename work with symlinks to /cygdrive paths on cygwin. Always lowercase drive-letters on native windows. (cygwin_readlink): Don't try to find canonical filename unless file exists. Index: src/realpath.c =================================================================== RCS file: /usr/CVSroot/XEmacs/xemacs/src/realpath.c,v retrieving revision 1.6.2.9 diff -u -r1.6.2.9 realpath.c --- src/realpath.c 2000/12/05 02:45:14 1.6.2.9 +++ src/realpath.c 2001/03/20 00:04:59 ＠＠ -137,7 +137,7 ＠＠ cygwin_readlink (const char * name, char * buf, int size) { int n = readlink (name, buf, size); - if (n < 0) + if (n < 0 && errno == EINVAL) { /* The file may exist, but isn't a symlink. Try to find the right name. */ ＠＠ -208,6 +208,9 ＠＠ if (abslen == 2 || abslen == 3) { strncpy (new_path, path, abslen); + /* Make sure drive letter is lowercased. */ + if (abslen == 3) + *new_path = tolower (*new_path); new_path += abslen; path += abslen; } ＠＠ -299,7 +302,11 ＠＠ if (n < 0) { /* EINVAL means the file exists but isn't a symlink. */ - if (errno != EINVAL) +#ifdef CYGWIN + if (errno != EINVAL && errno != ENOENT) +#else + if (errno != EINVAL) +#endif return NULL; } else ＠＠ -345,10 +352,5 ＠＠ /* Make sure it's null terminated. */ *new_path = '\0'; -#ifdef WIN32_NATIVE - if (ABS_LENGTH (resolved_path) == 3) - /* Lowercase drive letter. */ - *resolved_path = tolower (*resolved_path); -#endif return resolved_path; } Andy Piper <andyp(a)bea.com&gt; writes: > Dan, > > I think this was your fix. Any chance you can re-fix? > > Thanks > > andy > -- Dan Ola Holmsand IB dan(a)eyebee.com