From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Tramp patch for emacs-24 branch Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 11:42:04 +0300 Message-ID: <83ha5tk6n7.fsf@gnu.org> References: <874n1trbxl.fsf@gmx.de> <83ioq9ka3z.fsf@gnu.org> <87y4z5pw1u.fsf@gmx.de> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1397637742 17190 80.91.229.3 (16 Apr 2014 08:42:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 08:42:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Michael Albinus Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 16 10:42:15 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WaLQ5-0001p0-Q3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Apr 2014 10:42:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53462 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WaLQ5-0006DO-Eg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Apr 2014 04:42:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58462) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WaLPt-00063z-PX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Apr 2014 04:42:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WaLPo-0007pu-LU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Apr 2014 04:42:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:51946) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WaLPo-0007pm-Dl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Apr 2014 04:41:56 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0N4400B007U6ZR00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Apr 2014 11:41:54 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0N4400BOQ85U68B0@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Wed, 16 Apr 2014 11:41:54 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87y4z5pw1u.fsf@gmx.de> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:171449 Archived-At: > From: Michael Albinus > 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.