From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Fixing dired hangs when NFS mount goes AWOL Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 11:22:32 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87mxdf3z8u.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <0jty7nnl1f.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <5bvcs3kq0m.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87sjn68dhv.fsf@gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1317915614 8061 80.91.229.12 (6 Oct 2011 15:40:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 15:40:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chong Yidong , Michael Olson , Emacs Development Discussions To: Michael Albinus Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 06 17:40:09 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RBq3N-0005BW-0a for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 17:40:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51228 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RBq3M-0005wp-9q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 11:40:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:37498) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RBq3H-0005uR-9v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 11:40:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RBq3D-0004yH-BK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 11:40:03 -0400 Original-Received: from relais.videotron.ca ([24.201.245.36]:65249) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RBq3D-0004y6-3l; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 11:39:59 -0400 Original-Received: from ceviche.home ([70.83.132.46]) by VL-VM-MR004.ip.videotron.ca (Oracle Communications Messaging Exchange Server 7u4-22.01 64bit (built Apr 21 2011)) with ESMTP id <0LSN00HUEI1DYI70@VL-VM-MR004.ip.videotron.ca>; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 11:36:51 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 5C7376639F; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 11:22:32 -0400 (EDT) In-reply-to: <87sjn68dhv.fsf@gmx.de> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 24.201.245.36 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:144617 Archived-At: >> The concept of "remote" file is a very fuzzy one, which means very >> different things to different people in different cases. >> I tend to agree that file-remote-p should return non-nil on NFS mounted >> filesystems, but that's simply not implemented. Patch welcome, > This will break Tramp completely. Please don't change its current behaviour. Why would it break Tramp? This would only change the behavior of file-remote-p for file names which are not handled by Tramp, so it shouldn't break Tramp any more than adding some other file-name-handler for other kinds of remote magic file names. Stefan