On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Joe Stoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 1 Jun 2000 11:37:33 +1000 Daniel Pittman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 31 May 2000, Joe Stoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> > Apologies for what may be another half-baked late-evening report.
>> > But I'm having repeatable trouble with filename completion in a
>> > long directory.
>>
>> Hrm. I couldn't get this to break on my Linux machine with around 6K
>
> OK -- I can reproduce the problem without involving tramp at all. It
> turns out that for this particular directory (at least) the command
> /bin/ls -d .*/ */ 2>/dev/null | cat
> causes the /bin/ksh on the server (Solaris) to hang with no output.
> I've asked the server's sysadmins to tell my why.
Right. The output from strace(1)[1] would be most useful. But I suspect
that you will find that either ls, ksh or cat has a deadlock in it.
Which sucks. More than normal, because I can't think of a *good* way to
fix this problem.
Daniel
Footnotes:
[1] I think that Solaris calls this, um, 'truss'?
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