[debbugs-tracker] bug#21727: closed (Tramp hangs in Windows)

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regarding Tramp hangs in Windows
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> Tramp hangs in Windows
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> Wed, 21 Oct 2015 18:24:22 +0000 (UTC)
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> Alpine 2.20 (LRH 67 2015-01-07)
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> The official Windows builds of Emacs 24.4 and 24.5 hang when I run
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>   M-x load-library tramp [RET]
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> Earlier Emacs versions (24.3, 24.2, 24.1, 23.4) do not have this problem. 
> To get Emacs out of the frozen state, I can either kill some cmd.exe 
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> I get the same behavior on Windows XP and Windows 7, and I'm invoking 
> Emacs with -Q factory settings. Some changes between 24.3 and 24.4 are 
> probably causing the problem I'm having.
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> What I'm after is not to get Tramp functionality in Windows, but simply to 
> run Emacs commands that do some Tramp checks. These functions run fine on 
> the Linux side but hang in Windows. As far as I can tell, load-library 
> tramp is intended to run in Emacs in Windows, like in earlier versions. My 
> WinXP and Win7 machines are quite differently configured from each other, 
> so I hope this problem is reproducible.
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> Thanks,
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> Arni
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> Thu, 22 Oct 2015 22:56:59 +0200
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> Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux)
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> Arni Magnusson <address@hidden> writes:
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> > What happens when I type ssh on my Windows machines is that it invokes
> > some random ssh program that happens to be on my machines, but doesn't
> > support the options that Linux users might expect. In other words,
> > calling 'ssh' on a Windows machine with some options will result in an
> > undefined and unpredictable behavior - in my case, hanging.
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> >> An alternative could be to install Emacs 25.0.50. This works pretty
> >> stable, and Tramp has changed its test to be used w/o DNS. You find
> >> weekly snapshots at <https://sourceforge.net/projects/emacs-bin/>.
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> > That's it. Emacs 25 loads Tramp without getting tangled up in the
> > random ssh program that's installed on my machines. I'm sold.
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> Thanks for your tests, so it isn't a Tramp bug. I'm closing this report.
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> > Thanks for your help in identifying and solving the problem,
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> > Arni
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> Best regards, Michael.
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