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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