From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Feature request: new function start-remote-process
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 22:00:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85sl8fajoc.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1I2ucT-00013s-TV@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Mon\, 25 Jun 2007 15\:53\:05 -0400")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> > start-remote-process shall behave similar: if
> > default-directory points to a remote host, the corresponding
> > program shall be executed there.
>
> Looks like nobody objects. I'll install it next days in the trunk,
> unless there is a veto.
>
> But...how is it possible to do run a program on a remote host?
> In general, there is no way, right?
Uh, the whole point of tramp is that it communicates using a shell
connection.
And actually, even when the current directory is set using ange-ftp,
execution of shell commands tries to go through rsh IIRC, of course
mostly failing nowadays.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-25 20:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-17 13:45 Feature request: new function start-remote-process Michael Albinus
2007-06-17 14:40 ` Sean O'Rourke
2007-06-17 16:04 ` Michael Albinus
2007-06-25 18:49 ` Michael Albinus
2007-06-25 19:53 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-25 20:00 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2007-06-25 21:37 ` Michael Albinus
2007-06-26 16:57 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-26 18:57 ` Michael Albinus
2007-06-26 19:27 ` Michael Albinus
2007-06-26 15:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-06-27 10:37 ` Michael Albinus
2007-06-29 21:12 ` Michael Albinus
2007-06-30 2:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-06-30 8:43 ` Michael Albinus
2007-06-26 15:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-06-27 10:48 ` Michael Albinus
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