From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Wanrong Lin <wrglin@gmail.com>, 38079@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#38079: On Windows tramp hangs after server-start is called
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2019 08:51:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sgmyvm9d.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83sgn0g9j5.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 06 Nov 2019 20:11:10 +0200")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> But I don't understand the underlying difficulty to ensure
>> system-name never changes.
>
> There are two system calls that return this information on Windows,
> and they treat the letter-case differently. The second system call
> needs the winsock layer to be initialized, and we don't want to do
> that at startup because it causes various problems (sorry, I no longer
> remember the details of that part). So we only call the network-aware
> system call after some network connection is available.
Shouldn't we document this in etc/PROBLEMS? I can't write this, because
I don't know too much about Emacs on MS Windows.
Best regards, Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-08 7:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-06 0:52 bug#38079: On Windows tramp hangs after server-start is called Wanrong Lin
2019-11-06 16:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-06 16:14 ` martin rudalics
2019-11-06 17:37 ` Michael Albinus
2019-11-06 16:50 ` Wanrong Lin
2019-11-06 18:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-08 7:51 ` Michael Albinus [this message]
2019-11-08 10:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-08 10:50 ` Michael Albinus
2019-11-08 13:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-07 15:23 ` Michael Albinus
2019-11-07 16:18 ` Wanrong Lin
2019-11-07 17:45 ` Michael Albinus
2019-11-07 16:18 ` Wanrong Lin
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