Re: Ftp freezes on w32

[Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>]

Lennart Borgman wrote:
> Stuart D. Herring wrote:
>> Look at the docs for `process-status'.  A return of `signal' means that
>> the process -is dead-, and that it was killed by a signal (rather than
>> exiting of its own volition, which yields `exit').  You got exactly what
>> you wanted.  (You can check which signal killed it with
>> `process-exit-status'.)
>>
>> Davis
>>   
>
> Ah! Thanks, I just tried and at least my workaround now works.
>
> I thought that that 'signal meant dying ....
>
> Now, my workaround (which is the only way I currently know of getting 
> this working with w2k) is as follows:
>
> 1) Throw to a tag in ange-ftp-process-filter if the ftp process seems 
> out of order (waiting, only nulls and more than 20 characters is my 
> current test)
> 2) Catch this in ange-ftp-send-cmd and call delete-process there and 
> then let ange-ftp-get-process restart the ftp process
>
> Is this something we want in ange-ftp? If not I believe we should give 
> a reciepe for how to get ange-ftp working, but I am not sure how this 
> should look. What I do know is that this does not work OTB for all w2k 
> users, see the page on EmacsWiki that I mentioned before.
>
> The ftp program I am using is from 
> ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/emacs/windows/contrib/ftp-for-win32.zip.

(Hope I do not send this two times. Thunderbird got upset by some
problems with the SMTP server.)

FYI: I have included a patch doing the things above in the
Emacs+EmacsW32 distribution, see http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/EmacsW32.html.