Richard M. Stallman | 3 Oct 2005 21:33
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Re: ange-ftp-insert-directory should not follow symlinks

    My understanding is that it was added because with some FTP servers "ls foo"
    fails to list the contents of the foo directory when foo is a symlink.

That is what I recall.  I also recall that it always caused some
problems, but it was the lesser evil.

    So I suggest we remove the symlink-following code from
    ange-ftp-insert-directory, since it is otherwise harmful.

Ok, please do.

Thanks.

Gmane