bug#35506: 27.0.50; Emacs hangs while interrupting tramp processes

[Michael Albinus]

John Shahid <jvshahid@gmail.com> writes:

Hi John,

>> So your patch is correct, pls push.
>
> Thanks for reviewing the patch.  Unfortunately, I don't have push access
> to the repository.  Do you mind pushing the patch for me?

Done, pushed to master.

> 1. Asynchronously kill the process (the first patch)
> 2. Always return success, e.g. return proc.
>
> It doesn't make sense to use the default interrupt function for remote
> processes anyway, so always succeeding seems like the right thing to do
> here.  This begs the question, why do we have to wait for the process
> output at all?

Well, the caller wants to know whether `interrupt-process' succeeded.

>> So we must investigate, why `interrupt-process' does not return in
>> your case.
>
> That is a good point.  I didn't look deeply into why the `with-timeout'
> isn't timing out in my case.  I will try to understand what is going on
> in the next few days.

IIRC, `tramp-accept-process-output' suppresses timers. So we might
change the code to (untested)

        ;; Wait, until the process has disappeared.  If it doesn't,
        ;; fall back to the default implementation.
        (and (tramp-accept-process-output proc 1)
             ;; Report success.
             proc)))))

Does this work for you?

> Cheers,
>
> JS

Best regards, Michael.