Re: Unreliability in process output

[Kim F. Storm]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

> After emacs -Q, visiting src/window.c and then doing C-x v l gives
> unreliable results.  Large chunks of the buffer are missing. 

> Can anyone else observe this problem?  Can anyone make more headway
> debugging this?

It's an old problem with CVS over SSH -- it has been discussed
before on the mailing list.


Here is what INSTALL.CVS has to say about the topic:

Note on using SSH to access the CVS repository from inside Emacs
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Write access to the CVS repository requires using SSH v2.

If you execute cvs commands inside Emacs, specifically if you use
pcl-cvs, output from CVS may be lost due to a problem in the
interface between ssh, cvs, and libc.  Corrupted checkins have
also been rumored to have happened.

To fix the problem, save the following script into a file, make it
executable, and set CVS_RSH to the file name of the script:

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

This may be combined with the following entry in ~/.ssh/config to
simplify accessing the CVS repository:

Host subversions.gnu.org
     Protocol 2
     ForwardX11 no
     User YOUR_USERID

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