Re: Native OS pipelines in eshell and Emacs

[Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>]

Spencer Baugh <sbaugh@janestreet.com> writes:

Hi Spencer,

>     It would be doubly interesting if we manage to implement it so
>     that Tramp would be able to connect two processes directly without
>     round-tripping the i/o from the remote host to local and back to
>     remote.  That's a major source of latency in project-find-regexp
>     on remote.
>
> Unfortunately this is almost impossibly hard.  But, I actually have
> worked extensively on doing this specific impossible thing (remote
> process APIs that are powerful enough to do this) so I will eventually
> try to implement them for Emacs and TRAMP.  It would allow full
> make-process support in TRAMP as well as a make-pipe-process which
> represents a pipe existing on a remote system.

Much appreciated! A while ago, on a boring rainy day, I thought about
adding "Implement remote make-pipe-process" to my TODO. I didn't because
I have no idea yet how to do.

Best regards, Michael.