GNU bug report logs - #70792
30.0.50; [PATCH] Add Eshell support for expanding absolute file names within the current remote connection

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Jim Porter <jporterbugs <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 5 May 2024 21:00:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Found in version 30.0.50

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Message #23 received at 70792 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs <at> gmail.com>
To: Sean Whitton <spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name>
Cc: 70792 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#70792: 30.0.50; [PATCH] Add Eshell support for expanding
 absolute file names within the current remote connection
Date: Mon, 6 May 2024 11:37:06 -0700

On 5/6/2024 11:28 AM, Jim Porter wrote:
> Yes, but this breaks in non-obvious ways if Eshell's "cp" implementation 
> falls back to the external program. For example, today:
> 
>    ~ $ cp file /ssh:remote:~/file    # copies "file" to a remote host
>    ~ $ cp -b file /ssh:remote:~/file
>    /usr/bin/cp: cannot create regular file '/ssh:remote:~/file': No such
>    file or directory
> 
> Or the second line might work if you get unlucky, or pass --parents, or...

By "work" here, I mean, "cp will copy the file, but to a place you 
likely didn't intend."
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