Re: single character directory names dont work on exmh 2.8.0

"Julian H. Stacey" <[email protected]> Mon, 22 Oct 2018 14:07:21 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.mail.exmh.user
Organization http://berklix.eu BSD Unix Linux Consultants, Munich Germany
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi, Reference:
> From:		[email protected]
> Date:		Mon, 22 Oct 2018 07:16:03 -0400

[email protected] wrote:
> --==_Exmh_1540206963_10838P
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> 
> On Mon, 22 Oct 2018 11:12:45 +0200, "Julian H. Stacey" said:
> > pwd # /0s1/usr1/home/jhs
> > mkdir ~/tmp/x ; cp picture.jpg ~/tmp/x/
> > Buttons: Comp,
> > ---
> > To:     jhs@localhost
> > Subject:        test of 1 char dir name
> > From:           "Julian H. Stacey" <[email protected]>
> > Organization: http://berklix.eu BSD Linux Unix Consultants, Munich Germany
> > User-agent:     EXMH on FreeBSD http://www.berklix.eu/free/
> > X-From:         http://www.berklix.eu/~jhs/
> > Fcc:            sent
> >
> > ZZ to finish vi
> > ----
> > Buttons: More , Sedit , More , Attachment , Attach File
> > Shows /0s1/usr1/home/jhs/
> > Double left Click tmp/
> > Double left Click x/
> > Dir now shows as /0s1/usr1/home/jhs/tmpx/
> 
> That doesn't sound right, it shouldn't have lost the / in there...
> 
> > & content of box shows only ../
> > No picture.jpg
> 
> Hmm... I wasn't able to replicate it via obvious means, but this '#' gives me
> not-warm-fuzzies:

Ignore the # thats just me adding a comment , ie
	I typed		pwd
	it showed	/0s1/usr1/home/jhs
	
> 
> pwd # /0s1/usr1/home/jhs
> mkdir ~/tmp/x ; cp picture.jpg ~/tmp/x/
> Buttons: Comp,
> 
> Did you do the mkdir as root, and leave tmp/ and/or tmp/x with unreadable
> permissions?

No. No root at any stage.
I could do frame grabs if you want with xv to say .png format ?
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I have found: Preferences > Hacking Support > Debug log enable & turned it on
I will close & send this mail, so the log doesnt have 2 jobs at once,
then provoke the error again & see if it produces something for you in the log


> (Though actually, creating a root-owned tmp/x that was unreadable resulted
> in a *different* odd failure mode I need to chase down and fix)

Cheers,
Julian
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