bug#38079: closed (On Windows tramp hangs after server-start is called)

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> On Windows tramp hangs after server-start is called
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> Tue, 5 Nov 2019 19:52:59 -0500
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> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.2.0
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> On Windows, after M-x server-start, tramp no longer works. When I tried 
> to connect to a "pscp" remote Linux host, it just hangs at the message 
> "Remote prompt found" (something like that).
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> Today I finally figured out what the problem is, and put in a work 
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> ;; On Windows, after "server-start" is called, somehow (system-name) 
> will return lower case host name. If the original
> ;; (system-name) returns upper case host name now 
> tramp-restricted-shell-hosts-alist will be out-of-date and cause
> ;; tramp not to function properly.
> (defadvice server-start (after update-restricted-host-list last activate)
>   (setf tramp-restricted-shell-hosts-alist
>         (when (memq system-type '(windows-nt))
>           (list (concat "\\`" (regexp-quote (system-name)) "\\'")))))
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> But the proper fix should be to make sure (system-name) always returns 
> the same string consistently. I found it is this sexp in "server-start" 
> function that changes the return value of (system-name):
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>       (setq server-process
>         (apply #'make-network-process ....))
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> This bug has bothered me for a long time. Even Emacs 26.3 still has it 
> (although I am still using 26.2 for daily work). I hope this can lead to 
> a fix that saves some frustration for other fellow Emacs users.
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> Here is my set up:
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> In GNU Emacs 26.2 (build 1, x86_64-w64-mingw32)
>  of 2019-04-13 built on CIRROCUMULUS
> Repository revision: fd1b34bfba8f3f6298df47c8e10b61530426f749
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> Warren
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> Wanrong Lin <address@hidden> writes:
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> > Yes it does. Thanks.
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> Thanks for the feedback. I've committed the patch to the repositories,
> closing the bug.
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> > Wanrong
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> Best regards, Michael.
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