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25.0.50; tramp-test29-vc-registered aborts on Cygwin

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Message #14 received at 20118 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
To: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>
Cc: 20118 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20118: 25.0.50; tramp-test29-vc-registered aborts on Cygwin
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 11:36:41 +0100

Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu> writes:

>>> The outward symptom is almost identical to that of Bug#20117, but I
>>> don't know if the present bug is related, because it's been happening
>>> for as long as I can remember; I just never got around to reporting it.
>>>
>>> Test tramp-test29-vc-registered aborted with non-local exit
>>>    ABORTED  30/41  tramp-test29-vc-registered
>>
>> Please instrument it similar to the recipe in bug#20117.
>
> Output attached.

Well, this bug is different from Bug#20117. A shell function Tramp sends
to the remote host contains some lines with leading TABs. Your bash tries
to expand them.

The following patch shall fix this.

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
*** /home/albinus/src/tramp/lisp/tramp-sh.el.~master~	2015-03-17 11:25:13.857882111 +0100
--- /home/albinus/src/tramp/lisp/tramp-sh.el	2015-03-17 11:24:45.233315481 +0100
***************
*** 3725,3730 ****
--- 3725,3734 ----
  		  (tramp-get-connection-process vec) "scripts" nil)))
      (unless (member name scripts)
        (with-tramp-progress-reporter vec 5 (format "Sending script `%s'" name)
+ 	;; In bash, leading TABs like in `tramp-vc-registered-read-file-names'
+ 	;; could result in unwanted command expansion.  Avoid this.
+ 	(setq script (tramp-compat-replace-regexp-in-string
+ 		      (make-string 1 ?\t) (make-string 8 ? ) script))
  	;; The script could contain a call of Perl.  This is masked with `%s'.
  	(when (and (string-match "%s" script)
  		   (not (tramp-get-remote-perl vec)))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

> Ken

Best regards, Michael.

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