bug#36940: tests slowness and failure after recent Tramp changes

[Michael Albinus]

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

Hi Paul,

>> Can we do the equivalent of 'touch nonce-file' on the remote machine,
>> and then retrieve the nonce-file's timestamp? That should be a
>> reasonably-reliable way of getting a remote timestamp at the start of
>> the test.
>
> "touch ..." would work only for ssh-like Tramp methods, which is the
> minority. I've applied a similar approach, using the modification time
> of the very first remote file created in the test, as start test time.

I guess there's nothing left to do with this bug. Is it OK to close?

Best regards, Michael.