Re: auto-revert-mode and tramp file handlers

[Kai Grossjohann <kai@emptydomain.de>]

Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu> writes:

> Is there no way that tramp could detect that the user is off line in a
> fraction of a second (as ssh apparently can) and if so, return nil for
> file-exists-p and other functions that expect a return value of nil in
> this case?

I see what you're talking about.  The problem is that Tramp invokes
ssh to connect the remote host, then waits 60 seconds for the shell
prompt.  Additionally, it could check whether the process is still
alive and stop waiting when the process dies.  I completely forgot to
put this in.

Can't promise to do this right away, but I'll try.

Thanks a lot for helping make Tramp better!

Kai