Re: Fixing dired hangs when NFS mount goes AWOL

[Stefan Monnier]

>>> Not so important for basic file name operations, but needed for all
>>> process related things.
>> These are the uses which should use something like
>> file-accessible-directory-p instead of file-remote-p, right?

> A needed functionality is to translate between "local" file names (on
> the remote host), and "remote" file names in the sense of Tramp. The
> usual implementation is

> local -> remote:   (concat (file-remote-p default-directory) filename)
> remote -> local:   (file-remote-p filename 'localname)

Yes, file-remote-p for NFS would need to pay attention to such problems,
and it might introduce bugs, but that doesn't mean that file-remote-p
can't be used for NFS.


        Stefan