EFS 1.9 bug: Recursive delete - failed on linked file
Adrian Phillips (adrian.phillips@dnmi.no)
Mon, 1 Aug 1994 13:16:44 -0500
Greetings earthlings:
On a recursive delete of the emacs-19.25 directory, the delete fails
when it gets to the liblw.a file because the file it was linked to was
deleted earlier. Sounds like a tricky one to me.
Adrian
/root@fornebu:/usr/local/emacs-19.25/src:
total 26104
drwxr-xr-x 4 root system 4608 Jul 29 08:46 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root system 1024 Jul 29 08:46 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root system 16 Jul 29 07:48 liblw.a ->
../lwlib/liblw.a
-r--r--r-- 1 root staff 326 Sep 12 1993 line.h
-r--r--r-- 1 root system 50963 May 4 02:04 lisp.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 51472 May 28 14:33
Emacs : GNU Emacs 19.25.2 of Fri Jun 17 1994 on murky.oslo.dnmi.no
(rs6000-ibm-aix3.2)
Package: efs
efs believes that the host type of fornebu is unix.
Contents of *ftp root@fornebu*:
Please edit sensitive or irrelevant information.
================================================
open fornebu
Connected to fornebu.oslo.dnmi.no.
220 fornebu FTP server (Version 4.9 Thu Sep 2 20:35:07 CDT 1993) ready.
ftp> quote user "root"
331 Password required for root.
ftp> quote pass Turtle Power!
230 User root logged in.
ftp> hash
Hash mark printing on (1024 bytes/hash mark).
ftp> quote pwd
257 "/" is current directory.
ftp> quote syst
215 UNIX Type: L8 Version: BSD-44
ftp> ls "-al /." /tmp/efsafsJny
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening data connection for /bin/ls.
226 Transfer complete.
ftp> quote site idle
200 Current IDLE time limit is 900 seconds; max 7200
ftp> ls "-al /usr/." /tmp/efsafsJny
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening data connection for /bin/ls.
226 Transfer complete.
ftp> ls "-al /usr/local/." /tmp/efsafsJny
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening data connection for /bin/ls.
226 Transfer complete.
ftp> ls "-al /usr/local/emacs-19.25/." /tmp/efsafsJny
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening data connection for /bin/ls.
226 Transfer complete.
ftp> ls "-al /usr/local/emacs-19.25/src/." /tmp/efsafsJny
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening data connection for /bin/ls.
226 Transfer complete.
ftp> delete /usr/local/emacs-19.25/src/liblw.a
550 /usr/local/emacs-19.25/src/liblw.a: No such file or directory.
ftp>
current state:
==============
(setq
efs-19.23-version "1.9/1.3"
efs-cu-version "1.9/1.4"
efs-defun-version "1.9/1.3"
efs-dired-version "1.9/1.18"
efs-netrc-version "1.9/1.4"
efs-ovwrt-version "1.9/1.4"
efs-report-version "1.9/1.3"
efs-version "1.9/1.26"
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-host-regexp 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-debug-ftp-connection 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-ftp-buffer-expire-time nil
efs-ftp-program-args '("-i" "-n" "-g" "-v")
efs-ftp-prompt-regexp "^\\(ftp\\|Ftp\\|FTP\\)> *"
efs-gateway-ftp-prompt-regexp "^\\(ftp\\|Ftp\\|FTP\\)> *"
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 "rsh"
efs-gateway-program-args nil
efs-gateway-program-interactive nil
)
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