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On Windows tramp hangs after server-start is called

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
Cc: 38079 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, wrglin <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#38079: On Windows tramp hangs after server-start is called
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2019 15:35:24 +0200

> From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
> Cc: wrglin <at> gmail.com,  38079 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2019 11:50:45 +0100
> 
> >> Shouldn't we document this in etc/PROBLEMS?
> >
> > What would you suggest to document?  This is an internal detail of the
> > Emacs implementation, and users have no control on the results.  Maybe
> > I'm missing something, but what useful workarounds can we suggest?
> 
> I don't speak about users but developers.

Then PROBLEMS is not the appropriate place.

> At least we shall warn them that `system-name' can return different
> values. They might apply counter measures, like using only (downcase
> (system-name)) or a alike on w32.
> 
> Well, since it is about developers, the Lisp manual might be the better
> place to document, in the "Operating System Environment" section.

Right.  Or maybe in the doc string.

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