Re: Incomplete output from "cvs annotate"

[Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>]

storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes:

> In latest CVS emacs on GNU/Linux (redhat9.0), I noticed that the following
> sequence: 
>
>         C-h C-n         (open NEWS)
>         C-x v g         (annotate it)
>
> produces a very incomplete annotate buffer (approx 2/3 of the output is missing).
>
[...]
> So the big questions are -- and this is where I'm stuck:
>
>         What is so special with cvs annotate and call-process?

Nothing, it can happen with any cvs command over ssh (you can get partial
checkins, for example).

>         Why is the pipe opened by call-process -- and which cvs (as
>         well as my wrapper around cvs) writes to -- in non-blocking
>         state?

See <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-cvs/2002-07/msg00423.html>.  The
problem is that ssh makes stderr non-blocking and Emacs connects stdout
and stderr together, so that stdout becomes non-blocking as well.
Workaround is to separate stdout and stderr again, eg. by using this
script as CVS_RSH:

#!/bin/bash
exec 2> >(exec cat >&2 2>/dev/null)
exec ssh "$@"

Andreas.

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