Subject: bug#4841: 23.1.50; tramp su/sudo makes vc-dir hang (found remote shell ...)

From: Stefano Zacchiroli <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 23:09:24 +0100

On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 10:15:35PM +0100, Michael Albinus wrote:
> The last command Tramp performs is
> 
> cd /etc/; exec git ls-files -z -o --directory --no-empty-directory --exclude-standard --
> 
> Nothing returned. Could you, please, run the command as root in a shell,
> and see what happens? Maybe with and without the "exec" ...

Sure:

  root@usha:/etc# git ls-files -z -o --directory --no-empty-directory --exclude-standard --
  root@usha:/etc# echo $?
  0
  root@usha:/etc# touch a
  root@usha:/etc# git ls-files -z -o --directory --no-empty-directory --exclude-standard --
  aroot@usha:/etc# echo foo >> inittab 
  root@usha:/etc# # note the heading 'a' before the prompt
  root@usha:/etc# exec git ls-files -z -o --directory --no-empty-directory --exclude-standard --
  zack@usha:~$ echo $?
  0
  zack@usha:~$ 

(I'm not sure the last return code is actually faithful, as I haven't
 verified whether su returns to the caller the exit code of the shell
 process.)

Cheers.

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