Re: Emacs Hangs on Filesystem Operations on Stale NFS

[Yuri Khan]

On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 5:46 PM Alexander Shukaev
<address@hidden> wrote:

> […] the only
> way to time this case out reliably is to spawn a child which attempts to
> perform 'stat' and is then killed by the parent if timed out (similar to
> how 'lsof' does it).  I'm sure such a complex technique would be
> unacceptable for Emacs.

Isn’t that what TRAMP does behind the scene, though?