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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

  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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