GNU bug report logs - #2410
23.0.90; tramp: spurious ftp-error

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>

Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:30:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #47 received at 2410 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>
Cc: 2410 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
Subject: Re: bug#2410: 23.0.90; tramp: spurious ftp-error
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:00:00 +0100

On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 21:04:14 +0200 Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org> wrote:

>> Does this fix it?
>>
>> *** trunk/lisp/net/ange-ftp.el.~1.102.~	2009-01-06 15:29:22.000000000 -0500
>> --- trunk/lisp/net/ange-ftp.el	2009-02-22 13:16:25.000000000 -0500
>> ***************
>> *** 4478,4484 ****
>>          ;; then do an ls of current dir, which obviously won't work if we
>>          ;; want to ls a file.  So instead, we get a full listing of the
>>          ;; parent directory and extract the line corresponding to `file'.
>> !        (when (string-match "d\\'" switches)
>>            ;; Remove "d" which dired added to `switches'.
>>            (setq switches (substring switches 0 (match-beginning 0))))
>>          (let* ((dirlist (ange-ftp-ls (or (file-name-directory file) ".")
>> --- 4478,4484 ----
>>          ;; then do an ls of current dir, which obviously won't work if we
>>          ;; want to ls a file.  So instead, we get a full listing of the
>>          ;; parent directory and extract the line corresponding to `file'.
>> !        (when (string-match "-?d\\'" switches)
>>            ;; Remove "d" which dired added to `switches'.
>>            (setq switches (substring switches 0 (match-beginning 0))))
>>          (let* ((dirlist (ange-ftp-ls (or (file-name-directory file) ".")
>
> Thanks, it works.  I'd also ask Stephen to confirm this fixes his
> original bug report.

Sorry for the belated response, but I can indeed confirm that this
eliminates the spurious ftp-error message.  Many thanks for quickly
finding the source of the problem!

Steve Berman
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