From 6aad36ace9953b9672b13be68416d205532d5e59 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Albinus Date: Thu, 5 May 2016 10:23:06 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] tramp-sh.el: Work around a stat bug * lisp/net/tramp-sh.el (tramp-get-remote-stat): Do not use stat versions which produce shell quoted output. See also coreutils Bug#23422. --- lisp/net/tramp-sh.el | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/lisp/net/tramp-sh.el b/lisp/net/tramp-sh.el index 071ec576652..3fb15888ca8 100644 --- a/lisp/net/tramp-sh.el +++ b/lisp/net/tramp-sh.el @@ -5430,13 +5430,15 @@ Return ATTR." vec "stat" (tramp-get-remote-path vec))) tmp) ;; Check whether stat(1) returns usable syntax. "%s" does not - ;; work on older AIX systems. + ;; work on older AIX systems. Recent GNU stat versions (8.24?) + ;; use shell quoted format for "%N", we check the boundaries "`" + ;; and "'", therefore. See Bug#23422 in coreutils. (when result (setq tmp (tramp-send-command-and-read vec (format "%s -c '(\"%%N\" %%s)' /" result) 'noerror)) (unless (and (listp tmp) (stringp (car tmp)) - (string-match "^./.$" (car tmp)) + (string-match "^`/'$" (car tmp)) (integerp (cadr tmp))) (setq result nil))) result))) -- 2.39.2