EFS 1.15 bug: Large files makes EFS go blind
Jean-Francois Crespo (jfcrespo@nortelnetworks.com)
Mon, 22 Feb 1999 16:51:30 -0500 (EST)
To whom it may concern:
I have this nasty bug with EFS version 1.15/1.56 in XEmacs 20.4 that
make it virtually unusable. When I try to get a directory listing by
pressing TAB-TAB, I see only part of the files in the directory. Upon
closer inspection, it turns out that the listing stops before a file
that is moderately big (in bytes). Why you ask? Take a look at the
following output in the *Completions* buffer:
Possible completions are:
../ DMixture.h DRotation.h cmodel.h correction.h
./ DMixture.o DRotation.o cmodel.o correction.o
DMixture.cc DRotation.cc cmodel.cc correction.c
Now take a look at the listing produced by EFS in the ftp buffer (I cut
and pasted the ls command to see what happened)
ftp> ls "-al /tmp_mnt/u/bmtln135/jfcrespo/CC/discrim/src/."
/tmp/efsa15896
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls.
226 Transfer complete.
ftp> ls "-al /tmp_mnt/u/bmtln135/jfcrespo/CC/discrim/src/."
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls.
total 9440
drwxr-s--- 3 jfcrespo speechdev 4096 Feb 10 13:41 .
drwxr-s--- 5 jfcrespo speechdev 8192 Feb 10 13:40 ..
-rw-r----- 1 jfcrespo speechdev 2153 Feb 10 13:14 DMixture.cc
-rw-r----- 1 jfcrespo speechdev 764 Feb 27 1998 DMixture.h
-rw-rw-rw- 1 jfcrespo speechdev 5136 Feb 10 13:41 DMixture.o
-rw-r----- 1 jfcrespo speechdev 3878 Feb 10 13:16 DRotation.cc
-rw-r----- 1 jfcrespo speechdev 1450 Feb 26 1998 DRotation.h
-rw-rw-rw- 1 jfcrespo speechdev 6916 Feb 10 13:41 DRotation.o
-rw-r----- 1 jfcrespo speechdev 39452 Jul 1 1998 cmodel.cc
-rw-r----- 1 jfcrespo speechdev 4658 Apr 3 1998 cmodel.h
-rw-rw-rw- 1 jfcrespo speechdev 30344 Feb 10 13:40 cmodel.o
-rw-r----- 1 jfcrespo speechdev 26881 Jul 1 1998 correction.cc
-rw-r----- 1 jfcrespo speechdev 4485 May 12 1998 correction.h
-rw-rw-rw- 1 jfcrespo speechdev 26856 Feb 10 13:40 correction.o
-rwxr-x--- 1 jfcrespo speechdev2146304 Feb 10 13:41 discrim
-rw-r----- 1 jfcrespo speechdev 15996 May 13 1998 discrim.cc#
-rw-r----- 1 jfcrespo speechdev 3552 May 13 1998 discrim.h
#
226 Transfer complete.
ftp>
Notice the fact that there is no space between the size of the discrim
file and the speechdev group! This is precisely where EFS stopped
looking, as if it believed that there were no more files. I doubt that
this is a coincidence!
Incidently, if I change the group name to something smaller, then it
works like a charm!
Anybody ran into this problem before? Is there a workaround less
intrusive than the one I propose? Should I make an official bug report?
Jean-Francois Crespo
Nortel Networks
Emacs : XEmacs 20.4 "Emerald" [Lucid] (hppa1.1-hp-hpux10.20) of Thu Dec 3 1998 on wmtl249b
Package: efs
efs believes that the host type of wmtl24a8 is unknown.
current state:
==============
(setq
efs-cu-version "1.15/1.12"
efs-defun-version "1.15/1.1"
efs-fnh-version "1.15/1.3"
efs-netrc-version "1.15/1.2"
efs-ovwrt-version "1.15/1.2"
efs-report-version "1.15/1.9"
efs-version "1.15/1.56"
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efs-gateway-ftp-prompt-regexp "^\\(ftp\\|Ftp\\|FTP\\)> *"
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efs-local-host-regexp "^47\\.\\|^[^.]*$"
efs-ftp-local-host-regexp "^47\\.\\|^[^.]*$"
efs-gateway-host "ecargce0"
efs-gateway-type '(raptor "ftp" ("-i" "-n" "-g" "-v") "jfcrespo")
reporter-version "3.2"
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)