Re: Tramp with global-auto-revert-mode.

[storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm)]

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

> Kim Storm wrote:
> 
>    Please try again with my latest changes to GC.
> 
> This time I indeed do not seem able to produce this type of crash anymore.   
> 
> Tramp is still unusable with auto-revert-mode and I see a variety of
> strange bugs when trying to visit a second remote file using Tramp,
> for instance a copy of the modeline temporarily appearing inside the
> minibuffer.  I suspect that all these bugs are related to recursive
> Tramp invocations, which should be avoided.  I guess we have up till
> now avoided actually doing something about these problems, not to
> interfere with the gc debugging.
> 
> Should everybody agree that the problems with gc are fixed, then we
> could make the necessary changes in autorevert.el and tramp.el to get
> rid of the recursive invocation bugs.

I have experienced various problems with tramp itself while debugging
the GC problems -- they certainly need to be fixed before release.

I have a good confidence that my latest fixes to GC do fix the
reported problems with bad Misc object types.

-- 
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk> http://www.cua.dk