[Pkg-mc-devel] Bug#512715: Bug#512715: mc: fish can't get directory listings from solaris or HP-UX hosts

[Patrick Winnertz]

Am Freitag 23 Januar 2009 03:41:20 schrieb Bruce Hunsaker:
> Package: mc
> Version: 2:4.6.2~git20080311-2
> Severity: important
>
>
> When trying to connect to a remote Solaris host via 'cd /#sh:remotehost/'
> A directory listing cannot be obtained because fish was modified to
> use the 'Q' option to ls in order to quote filenames in the output
> of ls. The Q option is not valid for versions of ls on Solaris, HP-UX
> and probably other unix variants.  Therefore this method of obtaining
> a directory list is not portable, and makes this feature of MC unusable
> when trying to connect to various types of unix systems.
>
> See vfs/fish.c at about lines 369-385.
Yes, that's true. 

I'm already working on a patch which make this portable for more or less every 
system. (The new stuff will be based on perl with an fallback to the old code 
(with -Q if available, without if it's not available). 
Everything on a remote fs will work (files with spaces on start or end, special 
chars, links) if the perl stuff get's executed or the ls -Q stuff. 
If there is no perl nor a -Q option to ls nothing of the above will work (as 
it is now). 

I hope this is a good solution for this problem.

Greetings
Winnie

ps: I'll raise this bug to something which is RC after the patch is available.

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