Re: [tramp-devel] Trying to debug remote gdb issue

[Abhijeet More]

Not sure if my question was clear enough.
Is this the expected behavior of tramp-handle-file-exists-p or am I on
the wrong track?
AM

On 10/12/07, Abhijeet More <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying to use remote gdb over tramp and although gdb works fine,
> the source buffer is not displayed. (gud-display-line - does not do
> anything).
> I looked into this and it seems to me that the problem is that the
> function 'tramp-handle-file-exists-p' returns nil.
> This calls the macro 'with-file-property' which should set the
> property file-exists-p to t after fetching testing this on the remote
> machine with 'test -e'. But it seems to just go ahead and set this
> value without checking remotely (using tramp-set-file-property).
> I am using edebug to step through the macro - however I don't quite
> understand macros yet.
>
> I'd appreciate any pointers on how this could be resolved.
> I'm using emacs-22.1.1 / tramp and tramp-2.1.10 on gentoo. Please let
> me know if you need any more info.
> Regards
> AM
>