Re: vc-version-other-window

[Stefan Monnier]

>     Known bad interaction between SSH, CVS and libc.
>     The problem is independent from Emacs.
> Do we have an entry in PROBLEMS about this?

No.  I thought PROBLEMS was only for problems related to build/install or to
specific systems.

> Is there a way we could warn the user when this might be happening?

It's pretty difficult to detect when it might happen (it depends on the
CVS_RSH envvar, the CVS/Root file, the version of `cvs' you're using, the
speed of your network relative to the speed of your computer, the libc,
...).

IIUC, CVS people are working on a workaround (supposedly the problem is
that OpenSSH behaves badly, although it's difficult to say it's a bug).

> Detect that it has happened?

Seems even more difficult (and simply impossible in the case of
vc-version-other-window),


        Stefan