Re: tramp hangs

[Mark Geary]

On Thu, 19 Sep 2019, Michael Albinus wrote:

> Mark Geary <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Hi Mark,
>
> > I am unsure of the best direction to proceed from here. Add one of the
> > above work-arounds in Tramp? (How?) Further digging to find the root cause?
>
> Hard to say. However, the command line using stat(1) is kind of complex,
> maybe Solaris has problems with this. So you could instruct Tramp *not*
> to use stat (it will apply a perl script then, or a simple ls), which
> might work better.

My tests show that it's just the length of the command, not any other
kind of complexity.  An echo command with a single argument works if
the total length is 256 or less and fails if it is more than 256 characters.

> Could you please run
>
> (add-to-list 'tramp-connection-properties '("sfmg10" "stat" nil))
>
> after you have loaded Tramp, but before you try to connect that host for
> the first time?

That works. Thanks.

Mark