Re: ROX-Filer Copy Command to CIFS

On 16 October 2013 15:28,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm working with the lead developer of antiX.  Since 2007 all its
> releases have shipped with ROX-Filer and Pinboard as the distro
> defaults.
>
> Hoping to find help with a bogus ROX-Filer error message that can be
> obtained when copying files to a cifs (Samba) share.  The error says
> the copy failed, but in fact completes successfully.
>
> antiX also ships with other file managers, SpaceFM and Midnight
> Commander (mc).  The error message is not generated when using these
> or the standard CLI "cp" command.
>
> The problem seems to be caused by the way ROX-Filer copies files and
> dirs using the command "cp -p".
>
> There is a workaround mentioned in the Troubleshooting section of this
> ROX reference guide.  Look in the sub-section "Errors when copying to
> Windows partitions"
> http://rox.sourceforge.net/desktop/book/export/html/1.html.
> Unfortunately it cannot be used when mounting cifs (Samba) shares as
> the "quiet" option is invalid.
>
> Is there a way to force the "cp" rather than "cp -p"?

Edit copy_file in support.c? Actually, it's quite inefficient spawning
a process for each file. Maybe update it to use gio, or copy the code
from GNU cp in directly and ignore the error yourself?

> Alternatively, could an option be added to ROX-Filer-->Options-->Drag
> and Drop-->(or similar) to make parameters to the "cp" command user
> specifiable?


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