Re: sftp access method fails on Emacs master

[Michael Albinus]

Stephen Berman <address@hidden> writes:

Hi Steve,

> For some time I have been unable to access a remote directory via sftp
> using Tramp 2.4.2-pre from the Emacs master branch, while with emacs-26
> (Tramp 2.3.5.26.2) it works fine.  I think this started in February, and
> suspect these changes:
>
> commit 0a6c4479cff17b487580abe3a7ee202e71be25d2
> Author: Michael Albinus <address@hidden>
> Date:   Tue Feb 19 14:00:17 2019 +0100
>
>     Implement access-file in Tramp
>
> I've attached two traces with tramp-verbose set to 6, one from emacs-26
> showing a successful connection (starting at line 476) and one from
> master failing with "File is missing: Reading directory: No such file or
> directory" (line 475).  If that's not enough to find the problem, I'll
> be happy to provide more information.

It's late in the night, so just a first check only. Does the following
patch helps?

*** /tmp/ediff4cnHKH    2019-04-06 00:55:40.023631484 +0200
--- /home/albinus/src/tramp/lisp/tramp-gvfs.el  2019-04-06 00:54:57.459337741 
+0200
***************
*** 1079,1085 ****
        (setq res-filemodes
              (let ((n (cdr (assoc "unix::mode" attributes))))
                (if n
!                   (tramp-file-mode-from-int (string-to-number n))
                  (format
                   "%s%s%s%s------"
                   (if dirp "d" (if res-symlink-target "l" "-"))
--- 1079,1086 ----
        (setq res-filemodes
              (let ((n (cdr (assoc "unix::mode" attributes))))
                (if n
!                   (tramp-file-mode-from-int
!                    (logand (string-to-number n) #o7777)))))
                  (format
                   "%s%s%s%s------"
                   (if dirp "d" (if res-symlink-target "l" "-"))

If not, pls send traces with verbosity 10.

> Steve Berman

Best regards, Michael.