bug#53223: 27.2; multi-hop TRAMP with find-file-visit-truename t

[Michael Albinus]

Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:

Hi Aleksei,

>> It works exactly as described in the documentaion, but what is bothering me 
>> is
>> the difference in behaviour depending on the state of
>> `find-file-visit-truename'. It should only affect symlink resolution, but it
>> also changes Tramp behaviour.
>>
>> If `find-file-visit-truename' is set to nil, then Tramp is able to revert the
>> buffer and add a multi-hop definition back to `tramp-default-proxies-alist'.
>> If `find-file-visit-truename' is set to t, then it doesn't work. Shouldn't 
>> the
>> buffer somehow preserve the full path?
>
> It isn't just a find-file-visit-truename problem. Tramp cleans up ad-hoc
> multi-hop proxies when tramp-cleanup-all-connections is performed. This
> could happen for many different Tramp file name operations, not just
> file truenames. It is sheer luck for you that the example works when you
> haven't set find-file-visit-truename.
>
> If you replace tramp-cleanup-all-connections by tramp-cleanup-this-connection
> in your example, it works as expected.

No further comment, so I close this bug.

Best regards, Michael.