From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Tramp patch for emacs-24 branch
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 11:42:04 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ha5tk6n7.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y4z5pw1u.fsf@gmx.de>
> From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 09:34:21 +0200
>
> >> Last days, I have worked on a fix for a nasty Tramp problem: it loads
> >> itself recursively, when default-directory is already a remote file
> >> name.
> >
> > And why is that a problem? Does the second load cause any trouble?
>
> It's not a second load, but an infinite recursive load:
Sounds pretty serious to me.
> > I'd say it depends on how grave the problem is, see my questions above.
>
> It's a bug. But I believe the corresponding use case does not happen
> often.
But someone already bumped into it, so my vote is to apply to the
emacs-24 branch. We've just had a first pretest, and there are still
a few serious problem we know about, so it's not like you will be in
danger of destabilizing a very stable code base.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-16 8:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-16 7:05 Tramp patch for emacs-24 branch Michael Albinus
2014-04-16 7:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-04-16 7:34 ` Michael Albinus
2014-04-16 8:42 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2014-04-16 8:55 ` Michael Albinus
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