Gruss bug team: make_process_internal in XEmacs 21.5 loops until it can successfully create a process: for (i = 1; ; i++) { char suffix[10]; Lisp_Object tem = Fget_process (name1); if (NILP (tem)) break; sprintf (suffix, "<%d>", i); name1 = concat2 (name, build_string (suffix)); } This means that the process name you ask for might not be what you get, modulo a suffix. This can confuse the heck out of EFS, which becomes a factory for FTP processes. I humbly suggest the following patch: --- efs.el.orig Mon Oct 1 08:01:16 2001 +++ efs.el Mon Oct 1 08:03:32 2001 ＠＠ -3233,10 +3233,11 ＠＠ (if case-fold (setq user (downcase user))) (while (and (not found) list) (setq name (process-name (car list))) - (if (and (> (length name) len) + (if (and (>= (length name) len) (string-equal (substring name 0 5) "*ftp ") (string-equal - (if case-fold (downcase (substring name 5)) (substring name 5)) + (if case-fold (downcase (substring name 5 len)) + (substring name 5 len)) (or fmt (setq fmt (format "%s＠%s*" user host)))) (memq (process-status (car list)) '(run open))) (setq found (car list)) [As a backstop, perhaps it would be useful for EFS to limit the number of times it forked ftp for a given request.] Regards, - Phil Emacs : XEmacs 21.5 (beta3) "asparagus" [Lucid] (i686-pc-cygwin) of Tue Sep 25 2001 on PASTON Package: efs efs believes that the host type of localhost is unix. current state: ============== (setq efs-cu-version "1.20pre2/1.12" efs-defun-version "1.20pre2/1.1" efs-dired-version "1.20pre2/1.32" efs-dump-version "1.20pre2/1.2" efs-fnh-version "1.20pre2/1.4" efs-netrc-version "1.20pre2/1.2" efs-ovwrt-version "1.20pre2/1.3" efs-report-version "1.20pre2/1.10" efs-version "1.20pre2/1.63" efs-x19.15-version "1.20pre2/1.2" efs-36-bit-binary-file-name-regexp nil efs-anonymous-umask nil efs-auto-save 0 efs-auto-save-remotely nil efs-backup-by-copying nil efs-binary-file-host-regexp nil efs-binary-file-name-regexp "\\.\\([zZ]\\|t?gz\\|lzh\\|arc\\|zip\\|zoo\\|ta[rz]\\|dvi\\|sit\\|ps\\|elc\\|gif\\|Z-part-..\\|tpz\\|exe\\|[jm]pg\\|TZ[a-z]?\\|lib\\)\\(~\\|~[0-9]+~\\)?$\\|\\.\\(ARC\\|ELC\\|TAGS\\|EXE\\|ZIP\\|DVI|ZOO\\|GIF\\|T?GZ\\|[JM]PG\\)\\([.#;][0-9]+\\)?$" efs-buffer-name-case nil efs-compute-remote-buffer-file-truename nil efs-debug-ftp-connection nil efs-ding-on-chmod-failure t efs-ding-on-umask-failure t efs-disable-netrc-security-check nil efs-expire-ftp-buffers t efs-ftp-buffer-expire-time nil efs-ftp-program-args '("-i" "-n" "-g" "-v") efs-ftp-prompt-regexp "^\\(ftp\\|Ftp\\|FTP\\)> *" efs-gateway-ftp-prompt-regexp "^\\(ftp\\|Ftp\\|FTP\\)> *" efs-gateway-hash-mark-size nil efs-gateway-incoming-binary-hm-size nil efs-generate-anonymous-password &quot;philipa(a)bea.com&quot; 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