GNU bug report logs - #33781
tramp trouble when PATH is very long

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2018 19:17:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: fixed

Found in version 27.0.50

Fixed in version 27.1

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #18 received at 33781 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
Cc: 33781 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#33781: tramp tests abort on hydra
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2018 02:06:14 -0500

Glenn Morris wrote:

> On further poking around, I think the issue might be that remote PATH is
> getting truncated to ~ 4096 characters, which happens to lose sed.

Time will tell, but I think I have worked around this by simply putting
sed earlier in the PATH on hydra. (I wonder if this was causing other
test failures.)

I did not investigate the cause of the 4096 truncation, but perhaps it
is https://debbugs.gnu.org/12440, 6149, etc.
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