From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Henrik Ahlgren <pablo@seestieto.com>
Cc: 43226@debbugs.gnu.org, michael.albinus@gmx.de
Subject: bug#43226: 28.0.50; Running Tramp tests on MS-Windows leaves zombie processes on the remote
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2022 15:01:12 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83bkpyoktz.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wn8mhl8u.fsf@seestieto.com> (message from Henrik Ahlgren on Wed, 26 Oct 2022 14:34:09 +0300)
> From: Henrik Ahlgren <pablo@seestieto.com>
> Cc: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>, 43226@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2022 14:34:09 +0300
>
> This issue is documented on the FAQ section of the Magit manual:
>
> A.2.13 I am unable to stage when using Tramp from MS Windows
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Magit may be unable to stage (or otherwise apply) individual hunks when
> you are connected to remote machine using Tramp and the local machine
> uses MS Windows.
>
> There appears to be a problem with ‘process-send-eof’ in this
> scenario, as mentioned at the end of ‘tramp-tests.el’. I have contacted
> the Tramp maintainer about this. For now this unfortunately means that
> it just doesn’t work and we cannot do anything about it. If you have
> more information, then please comment on
> <https://github.com/magit/magit/issues/3624>.
This doesn't really add any useful information.
> After some debugging I figured out that by simply adding
> (process-send-string process "\004") in magic-process.el before (maybe
> even instead?) of process-send-eof, it works perfectly well. Maybe it's
> a valid workaround, or even the proper fix, but clearly there is some
> point of having a separate function for sending EOF.
>
> In the C implementation of process-send-eof (Emacs 27.1), it seems to only
> send EOF if the process has pty_flag set:
>
> if (XPROCESS (proc)->pty_flag)
> send_process (proc, "\004", 1, Qnil);
>
> I think this could be the reason: after all I believe PTYs are a fairly
> recent feature in Windows and Emacs does not support it yet?
Emacs doesn't (and probably will not) support the Windows
Pseudo-Console because it falls short of what Emacs needs: it doesn't
allow to send stuff in arbitrary encoding via this channel. I filed a
bug report with the developers many moons ago, but their response was
that it will probably never fixed. So you can only talk to a program
that uses the current system codepage, which is useless for Emacs.
So the ->pty_flag case is not for Windows. And even if we did try
using it, it wouldn't have worked for local processes, because Ctrl-D
is NOT the EOF character on Windows; it's Ctrl-Z, and then only if the
sub-process does text-mode reads (in binary mode, there's no way to
send EOF to a subprocess, only kill it).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-26 12:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-05 16:38 bug#43226: 28.0.50; Running Tramp tests on MS-Windows leaves zombie processes on the remote Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-05 19:04 ` bug#43226: Fwd: bug#26911: 25.2; eshell "cd .." doesn't work correctly with TRAMP Michael Albinus
2020-09-05 19:04 ` Michael Albinus
2020-09-05 19:16 ` bug#43226: 28.0.50; Running Tramp tests on MS-Windows leaves zombie processes on the remote Michael Albinus
2020-09-05 19:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-06 8:49 ` Michael Albinus
2020-09-06 15:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-06 15:54 ` Michael Albinus
2020-09-06 16:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-25 9:39 ` Henrik Ahlgren
2022-10-25 11:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-25 13:56 ` Henrik Ahlgren
2022-10-25 16:49 ` Michael Albinus
2022-10-25 19:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-26 11:34 ` Henrik Ahlgren
2022-10-26 12:01 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-10-26 14:15 ` HA
2022-10-29 14:48 ` Michael Albinus
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