The nul character (ascii 0) is invalid in file/paths for most filesystems and can be safely used as a separator, if elisp strings and sed can handle them then that's the answer.
-y On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 4:38 AM, Michael Albinus <michael.albi...@gmx.de> wrote: > pierre.techouey...@gfi.fr (Pierre Téchoueyres) writes: > > > Hello everybody, > > Hi Pierre, > > > After digging into the traces (thanks to `tramp-verbose'), I've found > > `tramp-do-file-attributes-with-stat' and > > `tramp-do-directory-files-and-attributes-with-stat'. > > On each of theses functions a replace of // is done. > > > > But this is done to workaround a bug in pdks on Opsware and I can't test > > it. > > > > The workaround I propose is to replace the //%N// of the stat command by > > **%N**. I thing it's impossible to create a link with stars (*) in name. > > Oh, it's possible: > > # touch /tmp/\*\*tmp\*\* > # ln -s /tmp/\*\*tmp\*\* /tmp/\*\*\*tmp\*\*\* > # ls -al /tmp/*tmp* > lrwxrwxrwx 1 albinus albinus 12 Aug 20 10:00 /tmp/***tmp*** -> > /tmp/**tmp** > -rw-rw-r-- 1 albinus albinus 0 Aug 20 10:00 /tmp/**tmp** > > And your patch makes the Tramp test suite fail. Try > > # make check > > The problem is, that in function `tramp--test-special-characters' the > file "*foo*bar*baz*" is checked. With your mask "**", the stat command > temporarily returns "***foo*bar*baz***", Tramp cannot decide safely, > which of the "**" characters has to be replaced in sed. > > So we would need another mask, which won't appear most likely in the > file name. Maybe you play with generating an arbitrary string, as > `tramp-end-of-heredoc' does? > > Best regards, Michael. > > _______________________________________________ > Tramp-devel mailing list > Tramp-devel@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/tramp-devel >
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