Re: some accept-process-output races fixed; Tramp FIXMEs

[Michael Albinus]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>> If we could guarantee that (accept-process-output p) returns when
>> either output has arrived and or the process has finished, I could
>> change the code.
>
> This has been the promise of the docstring "for ever", AFAIK.
> Which means that if you have nothing else to do until the process dies,
> then you're better off using nil for the timeout.
> I don't know if that promise was broken by bugs in the code, OTOH.

At least the w32 version of accept-process-output was broken in the
past, see the comment in tramp-accept-process-output. But this was Emacs
22 time, so hopefully it is fixed now.

I would need to test with Emacs 24, whether this is fixed. No chance for
*me*; I'm lucky when I can test with a recent Emacs on a w32 system.

Well ... I'll test with Emacs 26, and if it passes the tests, I'll
assume it works also with Emacs 24 and 25.

>         Stefan

Best regards, Michael.