Re: tramp ($Id: tramp.el,v 1.2 2001/12/08 11:57:03 youngs Exp $); Traversing symlinks

[Norbert K. <nk...@vi...>]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> Hm.  Linux versus FreeBSD.

Yes, that's possible.

> What does (file-attributes x) say on the two file names?

(file-attributes "~/ork-link")
  => ("ork" 1 144 100 (15411 1295) (15411 1295) (15411 1295)
      3 "lrwxrwxr-x" nil 3269985 134406)
(file-attributes "~/ork")
  => (t 13 144 100 (15410 63328) (15410 52129) (15410 52129)
      512 "drwxr-xr-x" nil 238412 134406)

This is from within XEmacs on my machine.  Or haven't I got you
correctly?

> I'm guessing that the first element, the symlink target, is off.  But
> I'm not sure.
>
> Also, could you make a fresh connection to the two hosts with (setq
> tramp-debug-buffer t tramp-verbose 10) and send me the resulting
> *debug/foo* buffers?  Thanks.

Find attached 
- sm-fbsd (FreeBSD 4.5-PRERELEASE i386) 
- sm-linux (Linux 2.2.12-20 i686)

norbert.