EFS 1.5 bug: efs hang

Andy Norman (ange@hplb.hpl.hp.com)
Fri, 18 Feb 1994 15:40:27 +0000 

Sandy,

Both efs 1.5 (and the soon-to-be 1.6) hang when attempting to resolve:

  C-x C-f /anonymous@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au:/pub/palmtops RET

efs doesn't parse the revolting non-standard error message returned from the
query.

					-- ange -- <><

Emacs  : GNU Emacs 18.59.19 of Mon Feb  7 1994 on spindle.hpl.hp.com (hpux)
Package: efs

efs believes that the host type of monu6.cc.monash.edu.au is unix.

Contents of *ftp anonymous@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au*:
Please edit sensitive or irrelevant information.
===================================================

open monu6.cc.monash.edu.au
Connected to monu6.cc.monash.edu.au.
220 monu6.cc.monash.edu.au FTP server ready.
quote user "anonymous"
ftp> 331 Guest login ok, send ident as password.
quote pass  Turtle Power!
ftp> 230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
hash
ftp> Hash mark printing on (1024 bytes/hash mark).
ftp> quote pwd
257 "/" is current directory.
quote syst
ftp> 500 'SYST': command not understood.
ftp> ls "-al /pub/palmtops/." /tmp/efsa00666
200 PORT command successful.
/pub/palmtops/. not found
ftp> 
Process *ftp anonymous@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au* kill

current state:
==============
(setq
     efs-18-version "1.6/1.2"
     efs-auto-version "1.6/1.4"
     efs-cu-version "1.6/1.0"
     efs-defun-version "1.6/1.3"
     efs-dired-version "1.6/1.8"
     efs-gwp-version "1.6/1.4"
     efs-netrc-version "1.6/1.0"
     efs-ovwrt-version "1.6/1.3"
     efs-report-version "1.5/1.1"
     efs-version "1.6/1.9"
     efs-36-bit-binary-file-name-regexp nil
     efs-anonymous-umask nil
     efs-auto-save 1
     efs-auto-save-remotely nil
     efs-backup-by-copying nil
     efs-binary-file-name-regexp "\\.\\([zZ]\\|gz\\|lzh\\|arc\\|zip\\|zoo\\|ta[rz]\\|dvi\\|ps\\|elc\\|gif\\|Z-part-..\\|tpz\\|exe\\|mpg\\|TZ[a-z]?\\)\\(~\\|~[0-9]+~\\)?$\\|\\.\\(ARC\\|ELC\\|TAGS\\|EXE\\|ZIP\\|DVI|ZOO\\|GIF\\)\\([.#;][0-9]+\\)?$"
     efs-buffer-name-case nil
     efs-compute-remote-buffer-file-truename nil
     efs-default-account nil
     efs-default-password "ange@hplb.hpl.hp.com"
     efs-default-user "anonymous"
     efs-ding-on-chmod-failure t
     efs-ding-on-umask-failure t
     efs-disable-netrc-security-check nil
     efs-expire-ftp-buffers t
     efs-fancy-buffer-names "%s@%s"
     efs-ftp-buffer-expire-time nil
     efs-ftp-program-args '("-i" "-n" "-g" "-v")
     efs-ftp-program-name "ftp"
     efs-gateway-hash-mark-size 1024
     efs-gateway-incoming-binary-hm-size nil
     efs-generate-anonymous-password t
     efs-gwp-prompt-pattern "^[^#$%>;]*[#$%>;] *"
     efs-hash-mark-size 1024
     efs-high-security-hosts nil
     efs-incoming-binary-hm-size nil
     efs-local-apollo-unix nil
     efs-ls-cache-max 5
     efs-make-backup-files '(unix sysV-unix bsd-unix next-unix apollo-unix dumb-unix super-dumb-unix)
     efs-maximize-idle nil
     efs-message-interval 0
     efs-netrc-filename "/users/ange/doc/junk"
     efs-nlist-cmd "nlist"
     efs-nslookup-on-connect nil
     efs-nslookup-program "nslookup"
     efs-prompt-for-transfer-type nil
     efs-pty-check-retry-time 5
     efs-pty-check-threshold 1000
     efs-retry-time 5
     efs-root-umask nil
     efs-send-hash t
     efs-short-circuit-to-remote-root nil
     efs-suppress-abort-recursive-edit-and-then nil
     efs-tmp-name-template "/tmp/efs"
     efs-umask nil
     efs-verbose t
     efs-verify-anonymous-modtime nil
     efs-verify-modtime-host-regexp ".*"
     )