GNU bug report logs - #36940
tests slowness and failure after recent Tramp changes

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Reported by: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2019 00:29:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #44 received at 36940 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
Cc: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>, 36940 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#36940: tests slowness and failure after recent Tramp changes
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2019 13:24:07 -0700

Michael Albinus wrote:

> A more precise test would be to retrieve the ert test start time, as taken
> from the remote machine. But I don't know of a general function doing this.

Can we do the equivalent of 'touch nonce-file' on the remote machine, and then 
retrieve the nonce-file's timestamp? That should be a reasonably-reliable way of 
getting a remote timestamp at the start of the test.
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