SudoWrite fails to write symlink (silently)

[blueyed]

SudoWrite does not work with symlinks:

% echo foo > foo
% sudo chown root foo
% ln -s foo symlink
% vim -c 'norm o2' -c 'SudoWrite' -c q symlink
% cat foo
foo

The expected result would be to have "2" after "foo".

[chrisbra]

What happened to the symlinked file?

[blueyed]

It stays intact, so after all the changes are more or less lost.
I have not checked the undofile etc.

[chrisbra]

BTW: I could not reproduce your issue. For me, it worked as expected, updating the file to which the symlink points to. This might be an issue with the shell, however.

[blueyed]

Sorry, I was using SudoWrite from https://github.com/tpope/vim-eunuch accidentally.

[chrisbra]

That is kind of funny.