bug#38577: 27.0.50; eshell / make-symbolic-link: cp -a fails on symlinks

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

"Jose A. Ortega Ruiz" <mail@jao.io> writes:

> This problem is present in 26.3 and latest master branch, i haven't
> tried with earilier versions.  To reproduce:
>
>    - emacs -Q
>    - M-x eshell, and there:
>
>        ~ $ touch foo
>        ~ $ ln -s foo bar
>        ~ $ cp -a bar foo
>        Wrong number of arguments: #<subr make-symbolic-link>, 4
>        ~ $ 

Thanks for the clear bug recipe.

This should now be fixed in Emacs 28.

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