Re: invalid Lisp expression: `((",,/home"")

[Torsten Bronger]

Hallöchen!

Michael Albinus writes:

> Torsten Bronger <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> With CVS Emacs, I try to open a file remotely via ssh and get the
>> error message
>>
>> File error: `\stat -c '(("%N") %h %u %g %X.0 %Y.0 %Z.0 %s.0 "%A" t %i.0 -1)'
>> /home' does not return a valid Lisp expression: `((",,/home"") 7 0 0
>> 1200314978.0 1193398112.0 1193398112.0 4096.0 "drwxr-xr-x" t 1517761.0 -1)
>
> What kind of remote machine do you access?

It's an openSUSE Server.  It has Samba directories, however, the
error occurs also for the local files.

> Which `stat' program is used there (try "which \stat")?

address@hidden:~> which stat
/usr/bin/stat
address@hidden:~> ls -l /usr/bin/stat
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 35348 22. Sep 01:43 /usr/bin/stat
address@hidden:~> stat --version
stat (GNU coreutils) 6.9
...

> What happens if you call "\stat -c %N /home"?

address@hidden:~> \stat -c %N /home
„/home“
[UTF-8-encoded]

> What is the result of "ls -dl /home"?

address@hidden:~> ls -dl /home
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 26. Okt 13:28 /home

Tschö,
Torsten.

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