Don't skip links to "." and ".." in Dired when marking files

* lisp/dired.el (dired-mark): Skip "." and "..", but not symlinks
to those two.  (Bug#38729)  (Bug#68814)

(cherry picked from commit e2682316867ecb22ee1db5e3028a8150d95d1a80)

diff --git a/lisp/dired.el b/lisp/dired.el
index cef93ab757cd48f1aa3428291da901ec08afefee..9e3b888df14fe8506c50b2d8444cb9b3f3aba2d1 100644 (file)
--- a/lisp/dired.el
+++ b/lisp/dired.el
@@ -4321,6 +4321,11 @@ this subdir."
        (prefix-numeric-value arg)
        (lambda ()
          (when (or (not (looking-at-p dired-re-dot))
+                   ;; Don't skip symlinks to ".", "..", etc.
+                   (save-excursion
+                     (re-search-forward
+                      dired-permission-flags-regexp nil t)
+                     (eq (char-after (match-beginning 1)) ?l))
                    (not (equal dired-marker-char dired-del-marker)))
            (delete-char 1)
            (insert dired-marker-char))))))))