Thanks Ian for your help. I'm rather glad to hear that it can be
reproduced outside of Emacs since I can now lay the blame on someone
else (people used to say "it doesn't work in PCL-CVS but it works with
VC so it must be a problem with PCL-CVS" ;-).
> > CVS uses stdio, and stdio doesn't work very well with non-blocking
> > file descriptors. CVS can detect the error easily enough, but at that
> > point stdio has already thrown away the buffer full of data, and CVS
> > hasn't recorded it anywhere. While in principle CVS could switch to
> > not use stdio, that would be a fairly substantial change.
My Unix programming is a bit rusty, so could someone explain to me
why SSH changing the blocking status of its file-descriptor would
have any impact on CVS' file-descriptor ? I understand the notion
of duplicating/sharing file-descriptors, but I would expect the
"blocking" status of a file-descriptor to be per-process rather than
global to all processes sharing that file-descriptor.
Stefan
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