From 58dbdc168ec23aeac66f056f39d5e8ee1291bef3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 11:32:53 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] It is _never_ good idea to ignore errors. People than expect
 everything is going ok.

Ok, I've now limited number of "could not parse" error messages to 5
per session. Lower this limit if it makes you crazy, but DO NOT REMOVE
those messages.
---
 vfs/ChangeLog |  1 +
 vfs/vfs.c     | 12 +++++++++---
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/vfs/ChangeLog b/vfs/ChangeLog
index feddaf0f4..6a08de59c 100644
--- a/vfs/ChangeLog
+++ b/vfs/ChangeLog
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 	* vfs.c (vfs_parse_filemode): fix for solaris which uses 'l'
 	instead of 'S'.
+	(vfs_parse_ls_lga): do not silently ignore parsing errors.
 
 Wed Apr 21 21:59:50 1999  Norbert Warmuth  <nwarmuth@privat.circular.de>
 
diff --git a/vfs/vfs.c b/vfs/vfs.c
index ad1ddabce..6df7e5d78 100644
--- a/vfs/vfs.c
+++ b/vfs/vfs.c
@@ -1736,9 +1736,15 @@ vfs_parse_ls_lga (char *p, struct stat *s, char **filename, char **linkname)
     return 1;
 
 error:
-#if 0
-    message_1s (1, "Could not parse:", p_copy);
-#endif
+    {
+      static int errorcount = 0;
+
+      if (++errorcount < 5) {
+	message_1s (1, "Could not parse:", p_copy);
+      } else if (errorcount == 5)
+	message_1s (1, "More parsing errors will be ignored.", "(sorry)" );
+    }
+
     if (p_copy != p)		/* Carefull! */
 	g_free (p_copy);
     return 0;