Re: small fix required in tramp.el for solaris

[Michael Albinus]

Gilles Pion <address@hidden> writes:

> To make tramp works on solaris I think it is needed to backslash the "^"
> character in the sed commend after the "uname" command, because solaris's
> /bin/sh interprets unquoted "^" as a pipe.

I'm not confident whether this could have side effects on other
platforms.  What about quoting the expression (does it work for you?):

*** /home/albinus/src/tramp/lisp/tramp.el.~2.505.~      Sun Sep  3 14:12:18 2006
--- /home/albinus/src/tramp/lisp/tramp.el       Wed Sep  6 22:23:26 2006
***************
*** 5196,5202 ****
           "^FreeBSD"
           (with-connection-property vec "uname"
             (tramp-send-command-and-read
!             vec "(uname -sr) 2>/dev/null | sed -e s/^/\\\"/ -e s/\\$/\\\"/")))
          500 0))))
    ;; Set remote PATH variable.
    (tramp-set-remote-path vec)
--- 5196,5202 ----
           "^FreeBSD"
           (with-connection-property vec "uname"
             (tramp-send-command-and-read
!             vec "(uname -sr) 2>/dev/null | sed -e 's/^\\|$/\"/g'")))
          500 0))))
    ;; Set remote PATH variable.
    (tramp-set-remote-path vec)