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From: | Reuben Thomas |
Subject: | bug#12098: How to trap errors in man? |
Date: | Wed, 19 Aug 2020 15:21:36 +0100 |
Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org> writes:
>> What if you are running this remotely using TRAMP? What if you're on a
>> laggy network with an NFS mounted filesystem? What if your disk is
>> failing and this command takes several seconds to complete? etc.
>
> No different from any other command that interacts with the disc and is
> normally run synchronously.
Yes, so your entire Emacs session will block. In other words, less than
satisfactory.
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