Re: Tramp 2.1.9

[Kai Grossjohann]

Does it work to change the /usr/bin/stat call to print the inode
number as a real?  If %i is the inode number, then you could replace
%i with %i.0.  Not sure whether any of the Lisp code needs to be
changed for this, though.

Kai

Pete Forman <address@hidden> writes:

> I'm trying to get Tramp working using XEmacs 21.5.17 on XP native,
> plink + pageant 0.59, connecting to RedHat 9.2.  This had Tramp 2.0.36
> but that failed in various ways which looked to be related to
> incomplete remote output.
>
> I've installed 2.1.9 plus timer-funcs.el 1.3 from the CVS xemacs-base
> package.  I also needed to provide a dummy definition for
> set-buffer-multibyte which is missing but unnecessary on XEmacs.
>
> There have been a number of problems along the way but I've managed to
> connect to a Solaris box and create, read and write files.  Linux
> remains a problem.  The tail of a debug buffer is
>
> 11:25:56 tramp-send-command-and-read (1) # File error: "`/usr/bin/stat
> -c '((\"%N\") %h %u %g %X.0 %Y.0 %Z.0 %s \"%A\" t %i -1)'
> /home/pforman' does not return a valid Lisp expression:
> ((\"`/home/pforman'\") 88 25434 102 1132651180.0 1176365745.0
> 1176365745.0 24576 \"drwxr-x--x\" t 1967553028 -1)
> '"
>
> The inode number (1967553028) is causing an overflow when trying to
> read it as a Lisp integer.  I note that (file-attributes
> "/home/pforman") in XEmacs on the Linux box gives -179930620 for the
> inode number.  In other words it can handle the overflow by forcing it
> into a signed number.
>
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