3 Oct 2005 21:33
Re: ange-ftp-insert-directory should not follow symlinks
Richard M. Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
2005-10-03 19:33:11 GMT
2005-10-03 19:33:11 GMT
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.
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