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 |
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| 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 ? i 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 -- Julian Stacey, Computer Consultant, Systems Engineer, BSD Linux Unix, Munich. Brexit referendum stole 3,700,000 Brits votes abroad, inc. 700,000 in EU. Campaign lies, criminal funding, economy & pound down. Time for an honest ref. http://exitbrexit.uk https://www.peoples-vote.uk/petition https://eci.ec.europa.eu/002/public/#/initiative