unofficial mirror of bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed
* bug#25854: 26.0.50; tramp-test19-directory-files-and-attributes fails on 32-bit Cygwin
@ 2017-02-23 23:19 Ken Brown
  2017-02-24  7:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread
From: Ken Brown @ 2017-02-23 23:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 25854

Starting with commit 3a6df2d,
tramp-test19-directory-files-and-attributes fails on 32-bit Cygwin.  The
reason is that inode numbers tend to be very large, on the order of
10^17, at least on my systems.  As a result, the "convert inode" code in
tramp-convert-file-attributes always falls back to tramp-get-inode.
Since this increments by 1 on every call, the file-attribute comparisons
in tramp-test19-directory-files-and-attributes always fail.

The significance of commit 3a6df2d is that it makes
tramp-get-remote-stat return a non-nil value, so that tramp uses 'stat'
for file attributes; this returns the true (large) inode number.  Prior
to that commit, tramp-get-remote-stat would always return nil, so that
the tramp-perl-file-attributes script would be used for file
attributes.  This script uses whatever inode number is returned by
Perl's version of 'stat', which is presumably some sort of 32-bit
truncation of the true inode number.

Although I'm seeing this on 32-bit Cygwin, it seems to me that it could
in principle happen on any 32-bit platform.

Ken




In GNU Emacs 26.0.50 (build 11, i686-pc-cygwin, GTK+ Version 3.18.9)
  of 2017-02-23 built on desktop-new
Repository revision: 16efea3a883ebf633946ee9b9d0681eb55437878
Windowing system distributor 'The Cygwin/X Project', version 11.0.11901000





^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 9+ messages in thread

end of thread, other threads:[~2017-02-25 15:19 UTC | newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages (download: mbox.gz follow: Atom feed
-- links below jump to the message on this page --
2017-02-23 23:19 bug#25854: 26.0.50; tramp-test19-directory-files-and-attributes fails on 32-bit Cygwin Ken Brown
2017-02-24  7:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-02-24  7:59   ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-02-24 14:04     ` Michael Albinus
2017-02-24 14:49       ` Ken Brown
2017-02-24 15:45         ` Ken Brown
2017-02-24 16:02           ` Michael Albinus
2017-02-25 14:05           ` Michael Albinus
2017-02-25 15:19             ` Ken Brown

Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox

	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).