rcp.el 1.130, XEmacs 20.3, Solaris 2.6.
I am unable to read some files and directories on a remote host
running AIX 4.3.2. Most files are okay. (The local host is Solaris
2.6.)
The error message is
Invalid read syntax: "Integer constant overflow in reader", "406856252", 10
The top of the backtrace is
Signaling: (invalid-read-syntax "Integer constant overflow in reader" "406856252" 10)
read(#<buffer "*rcp/rcp gsez020@morse*">)
(setq res-inode (read (current-buffer)))
The buffer contains
406856252 drwxrwxrwx 37 0 0 4096 Sep 24 16:08 /HOME
The file in question really does have an inode number that big. In
hex it is 1840223c, which is too large to fit in an emacs lisp
integer. I have not yet got round to building emacs on the AIX 4.3.2
platform but I rather suspect that I'll run into similar problems with
those files locally.
On the face of it, there can be no good solution. A couple of
possibilities are:
a) Textually truncate the inode string before converting to int.
b) Set inode to 0 if error in read.
c) Maybe dired.c in newer versions of [X]Emacs has a workaround.
A search through the source code of XEmacs 20.3 revealed no read of
the inode within file-attributes, except perhaps in dired-mark-sexp.
It probably does not matter what we write as the inode member.
--
Pete Forman
Western Geophysical
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