Re: tramp (2.1.15); TRAMP doesn't recognize subprocess death

[David Abrahams]

On Apr 12, 2009, at 2:33 PM, Michael Albinus wrote:

> David Abrahams <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Visit a remote file.
> > `M-x compile'
> > `ls'  ;; or whatever short command you please
> > `M-x compile'
> >
> > Compilation mode will tell you a compilation is still running and  
> > ask if
> > you want it killed.  This is not a serious problem for compilation,
> > although it is an inconvenience.  It's worse for something like psvn,
> > which relies on being able to know that the svn process has finished.
>
> In Tramp 2.1.16-pre this was fixed some weeks ago. Do you see a chance
> to test it, using Tramp's CVS repository? This code is not merged yet
> with GNU Emacs.


Looks like it works, thanks!

I had to apply this to tramp2.el or my autoloads failed, though:

--- tramp2.el.~1.1.~    2001-12-06 07:18:48.000000000 -0500
+++ tramp2.el   2009-04-13 12:04:05.000000000 -0400
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
 (defvar tramp2-temp-name-prefix nil
   "If not nil, a unique prefix string to identify tramp2 files.")

-
+;;;###autoload
 (defconst tramp2-path-tag "/!/"
   "Regular expression matching a TRAMP2 path tag.
 If you redefine this, be aware that you *need* the second `/' in


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