savannah: copy from fish vfs stalls on symlinks

[slavazanko]

Original: ​http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?12972

Submitted by:	None	Submitted on:	Wed 04 May 2005 11:43:48 PM UTC
Category:	VFS	Severity:|3 - Normal
Status:	None	Privacy:	Public
Assigned to:	Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov>	Open/Closed:	Open
Release:	current (CVS or snapshot)	Operating System:	GNU/Linux

Discussion:

Fri 06 May 2005 05:33:00 PM UTC, comment #3:

Symlinks to files. I don't think I had any problems with 
directories, now you come to mention it.

I did have sufficient permissions for the files: everything was 
world-readable.
	Anonymous
Thu 05 May 2005 01:05:11 PM UTC, comment #2:

I ask because I had experience with FISH similiar to the one 
described by the original poster. See this post:

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/mc-devel/2002-November/msg00067.html
	Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov>
Project AdministratorIn charge of this item.
Thu 05 May 2005 08:23:21 AM UTC, comment #1:

Symlinks to what ? A Directory, a file ? Have you checked that you 
have read permissions for the target of the symlink ?
	Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov>
Project AdministratorIn charge of this item.
Wed 04 May 2005 11:43:48 PM UTC, original submission:

Copying symlinks from Fish VFS freezes the UI.

This looks to be because the Fish VFS runs ls with -L (dereference 
symlinks) on the remote side and therefore only receives information
on the dereferenced files.

This includes the length of the file so MC stalls waiting for data 
when the remote host is reading the much smaller contents of the 
symlink.