Re: [gmane.emacs.devel] Tramp with global-auto-revert-mode.

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

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> >> What if we, for the time being, completely disable auto-reverting of
> >> remote files?  Currently it apparently _even_ gives problems for
> >> people with fast connections.  Once Tramp can better deal with
> >> reentrant (or recursive, whatever one wants to call it) calls, we can
> >> introduce a user option to dis/en-able auto-reverting of remote files.
> 
> > Yes, that's the "trivial fix" we should use for 21.4.
> 
> Indeed, it's probably a good thing to do independently from
> any other problem.  But I find it important that we fix the bugs
> revealed by such a setup before we change the default.

I think we have a pretty good understanding of what the problems are
in this case: GC problems have been fixed, so it remains to fix that
tramp is not reentrant.

So it is "safe" to change the default (and it has already been done).

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