From 6b2e6a53ecdc78411a167a1ea5718dcddaf9411c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Manuel Giraud Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2022 17:38:18 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] * lisp/net/tramp-sh.el (tramp-find-file-exists-command): Fix comment. --- lisp/net/tramp-sh.el | 13 +++++++------ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/lisp/net/tramp-sh.el b/lisp/net/tramp-sh.el index c80190a67fb..475d48cc30b 100644 --- a/lisp/net/tramp-sh.el +++ b/lisp/net/tramp-sh.el @@ -4134,13 +4134,10 @@ file exists and nonzero exit status otherwise." ;; The algorithm is as follows: we try a list of several commands. ;; For each command, we first run `$cmd /' -- this should return ;; true, as the root directory always exists. And then we run - ;; `$cmd /this\ file\ does\ not\ exist ', hoping that the file indeed - ;; does not exist. This should return false. We use the first - ;; command we find that seems to work. + ;; `$cmd /\ this\ file\ does\ not\ exist\ ', hoping that the file + ;; indeed does not exist. This should return false. We use the + ;; first command we find that seems to work. ;; The list of commands to try is as follows: - ;; `ls -d' This works on most systems, but NetBSD 1.4 - ;; has a bug: `ls' always returns zero exit - ;; status, even for files which don't exist. ;; `test -e' Some Bourne shells have a `test' builtin ;; which does not know the `-e' option. ;; `/bin/test -e' For those, the `test' binary on disk normally @@ -4148,6 +4145,10 @@ file exists and nonzero exit status otherwise." ;; is sometimes `/bin/test' and sometimes it's ;; `/usr/bin/test'. ;; `/usr/bin/test -e' In case `/bin/test' does not exist. + ;; `ls -d' This works on most systems, but NetBSD 1.4 + ;; has a bug: `ls' always returns zero exit + ;; status, even for files which don't exist. + (unless (or (ignore-errors (and (setq result (format "%s -e" (tramp-get-test-command vec))) -- 2.39.5