From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Feature request: new function start-remote-process Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 22:00:35 +0200 Message-ID: <85sl8fajoc.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <87sl8qpueb.fsf@gmx.de> <87k5trkgxn.fsf@gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182801689 17234 80.91.229.12 (25 Jun 2007 20:01:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 20:01:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Michael Albinus , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 25 22:01:22 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I2ujy-00030s-Ex for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 22:00:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I2ujy-0000PH-21 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:00:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I2uju-0000Oi-A4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:00:46 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I2ujs-0000OB-MF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:00:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I2ujs-0000O6-Fe for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:00:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-13.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.53]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I2ujp-0005wF-AA; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:00:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-01-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-05-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.17]) by mail-in-13.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0A041E5393; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 22:00:39 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail-in-07.arcor-online.net (mail-in-07.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.47]) by mail-in-01-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 809742DA962; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 22:00:39 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-061-159.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.61.159]) by mail-in-07.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9ABFC3FE9; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 22:00:38 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 668251D03440; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 22:00:35 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Mon\, 25 Jun 2007 15\:53\:05 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.90.3/3523/Mon Jun 25 16:30:33 2007 on mail-in-07.arcor-online.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:73851 Archived-At: Richard Stallman 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