Re: Tramp corrupting remote files

[Michael Albinus]

Charles Duffy <address@hidden> writes:

> Exactly what the subject says. ssh transport; the remote system is using
> AFS as the filesystem, so changes aren't necessarily committed until a
> close() or sync() is done.

I would need the variables dump provided by 'M-x tramp-bug' as well as
the "*tramp/ssh foo*" and "*debug tramp/ssh foo*" buffers for analysis.

> Using the scp transport with the CVS version [needed for password
> support] does not have this issue; indeed, it works quite well except
> for the interminable reprompting for my password -- but perhaps this is
> trivially disablable; I haven't looked at the docs all that hard.

Default is 16sec caching; how to change the value is explained in the
manual.

Best regards, Michael.