Re: Dired command on same host

[Manuel Giraud]

Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:

> Manuel Giraud <manuel@ledu-giraud.fr> writes:
>
>> Hi Michael,
>
> Hi Manuel,
>
>> Sorry my bad. Maybe my two dired buffers were not `tramp-equal-remote'
>> (BTW, I think there is a typo in the example of the docstring of
>> `tramp-equal-remote':
>>
>> Example:
>>
>>   (tramp-equal-remote \"/ssh::/etc\" \"/-:<your host name>:/home\")
>>                                                             ^
>>                                                             |_ shouldn't
>>                                                                it be etc 
>> here)
>
> No. tramp-equal-remote ignores the local part of the remote file
> names. That's what the docstring says above the example.

Sorry again. I should read more carefully :-|

[...]

> Must be checked, yes. But this isn't a problem for Tramp. It keeps shell
> sessions on both host A and host B, a simple "ssh -q -o ConnectTimeout=1
> B exit 2>/dev/null" on host A would tell us whether host B is reachable
> (checking the exit code, and caching the result). If not, Tramp could
> fall back to the current behavior.

To adress Tassilo remark, maybe it should make a hash of «some known»
file too to ensure that this is the correct host B. Or maybe this is too
much.
-- 
Manuel Giraud