EFS 1.10 bug: softlinks to remote files?

Axel Boldt (axel@uni-paderborn.de)
Sun, 28 Aug 1994 05:35:29 +0200 

Emacs  : GNU Emacs 19.25.1 of Thu Aug  4 1994 on haegar (sparc-sun-sunos4.1.3)
Package: efs

efs believes that the host type of plato is unix.

current state:
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(setq
     efs-19.23-version "1.10/1.5"
     efs-auto-version "1.10/1.6"
     efs-cu-version "1.10/1.5"
     efs-defun-version "1.10/1.3"
     efs-dired-version "1.10/1.20"
     efs-fnh-version "1.10/1.1"
     efs-netrc-version "1.10/1.6"
     efs-ovwrt-version "1.10/1.5"
     efs-report-version "1.10/1.4"
     efs-version "1.10/1.38"
     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]\\|t?gz\\|lzh\\|arc\\|zip\\|zoo\\|ta[rz]\\|dvi\\|sit\\|ps\\|elc\\|gif\\|Z-part-..\\|tpz\\|exe\\|[jm]pg\\|TZ[a-z]?\\|lib\\)\\(~\\|~[0-9]+~\\)?$\\|\\.\\(ARC\\|ELC\\|TAGS\\|EXE\\|ZIP\\|DVI|ZOO\\|GIF\\|T?GZ\\|[JM]PG\\)\\([.#;][0-9]+\\)?$"
     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 "axel@uni-paderborn.de"
     efs-hash-mark-size 8192
     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 "ls"
     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-text-file-name-regexp ".*"
     efs-treat-crlf-as-nl 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

Let me start by reporting a meta bug: I just ran efs-report-bug as you
might have guessed and I got the error message "Value as variable is
void: efs-smart-gateway".

Ok, I created a link to the .login file on a remote machine with
ln -s //plato.uni-paderborn.de:.login .login_plato
plato is in my .netrc with the username axel but without
password. Then I started dired on the directory containing said link
and typed 'f' on its line. I got a short message "file exists but
cannot be read" and then efs apparently tried to connect to s.plato,
which of course doesn't exist.                              ^^

Axel