Hello. I am using TRAMP 2.1.20 in Emacs 23.3. Usually it is all smooth and cool. But recently I got a new embedded system to play with - a satellite receiver Vu+DUO. I am accessing the system through dropbear ssh. TRAMP reads files just fine. And clames to successfully save files as well. But in fact it saves empty files. It can be very surprising to find an empty config file after you have just saved it in Emacs :)
Turns out TRAMP uses "uudecode -o /dev/stdout" method for remote decoding. But there is no /dev/stdout device (or symlink) on the system. Since everything is running under root (yes, this is bad), uuencode just creates a regular file /dev/stdout and writes the output to it, while stdout (where TRAMP expects the output) is empty. I think a simple solution would be to test that /dev/stdout exists and is a character device (i.e. "test -c /dev/stdout") before trying to do "uudecode -o /dev/stdout". I can provide additional info or do testing if needed. Please keep me in Cc as I am not on the list. Regards, Dmitry _______________________________________________ Tramp-devel mailing list Tramp-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/tramp-devel
