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

Adrian Phillips (adrian.phillips@dnmi.no)
Mon, 12 Sep 94 08:06:46 +0200


> Cc: schwarz@hal1.physik.uni-dortmund.de (Joerg-Martin Schwarz),
>         efs-bugs%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
> Date: Mon, 12 Sep 1994 00:07:14 +0100
> From: Andy Norman <ange@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
> Sender: efs-bugs-request@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
> 
> 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.
> 
> 					-- ange -- <><
> 
> 					ange@hplb.hpl.hp.com

How about the possibilty of both the old and this, switching using
either a user variable or some sort of auto-checking ?

Adrian

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