EFS 1.6 bug: bug when copying to a new directory

Edward Hartnett (ejh@larry.gsfc.nasa.gov)
Tue, 3 May 94 16:53:23 -0400 

Dear bug team:

Today I was copying a bunch of files to a remote machine. The remote
machine did not have the directories set up to receive these files.
First, from the local host, I copied a few files into my home
directory on the remote host. Then I realized that I needed to create
subdirectory on the remote host to hold some more of my files. I went
to another window, did that, and then tried to copy some files to the
new directory on the remote host.

efs gave me "destination must be a directory" error message. Then I
used efs to open the new directory that I had created. Then I tried
the copy again and it worked.

Seems like efs keeps a list of what directories are there on the
remote machine. If I add a directory (elsewhere) and then try to copy
to it, efs must update it's info first.

I realize that I could have created the new directories with efs, and
avoided this problem. But that's just not how I happened to do it
today.

If you want more details about this, please let me know. As it is I'm
not sure you'll even want to bother with this one.

Emacs  : GNU Emacs 19.22.2 of Tue Nov 30 1993 on larry.gsfc.nasa.gov (hpux)
Package: efs

current state:
==============
(setq
     efs-19-version "1.6/1.3"
     efs-auto-version "1.6/1.4"
     efs-cp-p-version "1.6/1.0"
     efs-cu-version "1.6/1.1"
     efs-defun-version "1.6/1.3"
     efs-dired-version "1.6/1.8"
     efs-netrc-version "1.6/1.0"
     efs-ovwrt-version "1.6/1.3"
     efs-report-version "1.5/1.1"
     efs-version "1.6/1.11"
     efs-36-bit-binary-file-name-regexp nil
     efs-anonymous-umask nil
     efs-auto-save 0
     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-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-gateway-hash-mark-size nil
     efs-gateway-incoming-binary-hm-size nil
     efs-generate-anonymous-password t
     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-max-ftp-buffer-size 3000
     efs-maximize-idle nil
     efs-message-interval 0
     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-umask nil
     efs-verbose t
     efs-verify-anonymous-modtime nil
     efs-verify-modtime-host-regexp ".*"
     efs-ftp-program-name "ftp"
     efs-ftp-program-args '("-i" "-n" "-g" "-v")
     efs-local-host-regexp ".*"
     efs-ftp-local-host-regexp ".*"
     efs-gateway-host nil
     efs-smart-gateway nil
     efs-gateway-program "remsh"
     efs-gateway-program-args nil
     efs-gateway-program-interactive nil
     )