Re: Fixing dired hangs when NFS mount goes AWOL

[Stefan Monnier]

>> The concept of "remote" file is a very fuzzy one, which means very
>> different things to different people in different cases.
>> I tend to agree that file-remote-p should return non-nil on NFS mounted
>> filesystems, but that's simply not implemented.  Patch welcome,
> This will break Tramp completely. Please don't change its current behaviour.

Why would it break Tramp?  This would only change the behavior of
file-remote-p for file names which are not handled by Tramp, so it
shouldn't break Tramp any more than adding some other file-name-handler
for other kinds of remote magic file names.


        Stefan