Re: EFS 1.11 bug: efs hangs on local error message

Andy Norman (ange@hplb.hpl.hp.com)
Mon, 12 Sep 1994 00:07:14 +0100


Sandy writes:

> This problem has been cropping up a lot lately.  efs does check for
> such messages from the client, but so far I have not found any two
> clients that use the same message.  I am beginning to think that
> efs-copy-file-internal should always call file-exists-p on the local
> file when doing local to remote copies.

> What do you think Andy?

I agree.  We can't hope to parse all the non-standard ftp client error
messages.

The only place where this might hurt is when the remote destination is a file
in a large directory.  I think that correct action with possible poor
performance is better than broken action.

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