Re: Ftp freezes on w32

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

Lennart Borgman wrote:
> Lennart Borgman wrote:
>>
>> I was wrong when I said I can work around the problem by deleting the 
>> inferior ftp process. I can't because I can not get rid of the ftp 
>> process. It seems impossible in Emacs on w32.
>>
>> Does someone have any reciepe how to get ange-ftp to work on w32? I 
>> do not know of any way to get it working.
>
> Forgot to say that kill-process does not kill the process immediately 
> on w32. Is that a bug or by purpose?

Am I the only person here using ange-ftp (through tramp of course) on w32???

I have tried a couple of workarounds, but none has worked as I wish yet. 
What I thought would work was to kill and restart the ange ftp process 
in ange-ftp-send-cmd when ange-ftp-process-filter finds that the  ftp 
process sends just nulls. I tried something like this then

    (delete-process proc)
   (while (not (eq 'exit (process-status proc)))
     (sit-for 1)
     (sleep-for 1) ;; Hope one of them works
    (message "process-status=%s" (process-status proc)))

This just loops and tells that the process is "signaled". Is there 
something else I can do here? (I have tried kill-process too with the 
same result.) I thought that sit-for or sleep-for would give Emacs a 
chance to finish the ftp process, but it does not seem so.