Re: Problem with Tramp 2.5.2 (with emacs 28.1) when talking to Solaris

[Simon Matthews]

* Michael Albinus (michael.albinus@gmx.de) [220420 05:49]:
> Simon Matthews <spm@flirble.org> writes:
> 
> Hi Simon,
> 
> > When attempting to browse directories on a Solaris remote host only the
> > home directory is shown.
> >
> > This is due to passing the -w flag to ls:
> > /usr/xpg4/bin/ls --color=never -al -w /home/spm/some/dir/. 2>/dev/null
> >
> > The Solaris variants of ls do support "-w" but it expects a parameter:
> >        -w cols
> >        --width cols
> >
> >            Multi-column output where the column width is forced to cols.
> >
> > It looks like this flag is the same no matter which variant of ls is used
> > (/usr/bin/ls, /usr/xpg4/bin/ls, /usr/xpg6/bin/ls).
> 
> Thanks for the report. Unfortunately, I cannot test on Solaris myself.

Oracle provide a VM that can be used for testing at 
https://www.oracle.com/solaris/solaris11/downloads/solaris11-vm-templates-downloads.html.

> Before applying "ls -al -w", Tramp checks whether there is an error with
> these arguments. So I would like to see what happens there.
> 
> Could you, pls, start "emacs -Q --eval '(setq tramp-verbose 6)'" and
> open the remote connection? Play a little bit, opening other
> directories. When it fails, pls send the complete debug buffer (as
> attachment).

Should be attached.

Simon

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