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In article <JBW.90Apr24165725@bucsf.bu.edu> jbw@bucsf.bu.edu (Joe Wells) writes:

   ;; symlink-fix: Fix to remove symbolic links from file pathnames.
   ;; Copyright (C) 1989 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

I would be very very happy if this could be made unnecessary via an
Elisp variable selecting between symlink-retaining and proper :-)
behaviour in the C version of expand-file-name (and
substiutute-in-file-name?).  Even a compile-type option would do - I
have been so distressed by this before that I have built a personal
emacs which canonicalises filenames by finding the referred-to file or
directory and then emulating getwd to find the `real' path.  No, I
can't send it; it's a hack derived directly from our system's getwd(3).

The reason I don't use this now is that we use the automounter to
automatically mount and unmount NFS filesystems - and this relies on
access via symbolic links.  I claim this is a misfeature of the
automounter, but I don't know enough about how _that_ works to suggest a
solution.

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Ray Nickson <Ray.Nickson@comp.vuw.ac.nz>                    + 64 4 721000x8145