view etc/future-bug @ 105767:986f88345cba

* net/tramp.el (tramp-perl-file-truename): New defconst. Perl code contributed by yary <[e-mail]> (tiny change). (tramp-handle-file-truename, tramp-get-remote-perl): Use it. Check also for "perl-file-spec" and "perl-cwd-realpath" properties. (tramp-handle-write-region): In case of APPEND, reuse the tmpfile name. * net/tramp.el (tramp-perl-file-name-all-completions): New defconst. (tramp-get-remote-readlink): New defun. (tramp-handle-file-truename): Use it. (tramp-handle-file-exists-p): Check file-attributes cache, assume file exists if cache value present. (tramp-check-cached-permissions) New defun. (tramp-handle-file-readable-p): Use it. (tramp-handle-file-writable-p): Likewise. (tramp-handle-file-executable-p): Likewise. (tramp-handle-file-name-all-completions): Try using Perl to get partial completions. When perl not available, combine `cd' and `ls' into single remote operation and use shell expansion to get partial remote directory contents. Set `file-exists-p' cache for directory and any files returned by ls. Change cache handling to support partial directory contents. Use error message emitted by remote `cd' or Perl code for local tramp-error. (tramp-do-copy-or-rename-file-directly): Avoid separate tramp-send-command-and-check call. (tramp-handle-process-file): Merge three remote ops into one. Do not flush all caches when `process-file-side-effects' is set. (tramp-handle-write-region): Avoid tramp-set-file-uid-gid if file-attributes shows uid/gid to be set already.

Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2199 21:03:50 -0600
From: Karl Fogel <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: M-x search-backward-in-time broken...
X-Windows: you'll envy the dead.

In GNU Emacs 51.70.4 (i9986-unknown-linux-gnu, X toolkit) of Sat Feb  20 2199 on floss
configured using `configure  --with-x-toolkit=yes'

        The `search-backward-in-time' function appears to be broken in
Emacs 51.70.

        Unfortunately, I can never seem to start the debugger early
enough to catch the error as it happens.  However I have traced the
problem through source by eye, and it looks like `time-forward' can't
handle negative arguments anymore.  This is consistent with other
symptoms: for example, `undo' (which since 51.25 has worked by passing
a negative arg to `time-forward') is also broken.  However, `do' still
works -- it seems that `time-forward' continues to handle positive
arguments just fine.

        No one here-and-now can figure out how to fix the problem,
because the code for `time-forward' is so hairy.  We're using M-x
report-future-emacs-bug to request that you folks include more
comments when you write it (sometime in 2198 as I recall).

        Thanks!

-Karl Fogel   <[e-mail]>


P.S. You'll be pleased to know that since (time-forward N) still works
     for N >= 0, we've used it to pre-emptively update configure.in.
     Emacs now configures and builds on every platform that will ever
     be made.  It wasn't easy, but at least that's one problem out of
     the way for good.  If you'd like the patch, just ask.