new vc rcs file checkin problem with tramp

[Ville Skyttä]

On Monday 01 October 2007, Michael Albinus wrote:
> Ville Skyttä <scop at xemacs.org> writes:
> >> (or (functionp 'process-file)
> >>     (defalias  'process-file 'tramp-handle-process-file))
> >>
> >> The other altrnative would be to call `tramp-handle-process-file'
> >> directly.
> >
> > This was the first approach I tried.  However, it doesn't work for me,
> > evaluating (vc-user-login-name "/[some.host]foo/bar") I get this:
> >
> > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument
> > number-char-or-marker-p nil)
>
> Hmm, you're right. The implementation of `process-file' in Tramp 2.0
> is stupid, indeed. It does not return the proper exit code.

Ouch:(

> I hope we can solve the GPL licensing issues sometime. Then we could
> go forward with Tramp 2.1 in XEmacs, which has been declared as stable
> Tramp version meanwhile.

Hopefully so.  However this is something I'm afraid we'll need to take care of 
without waiting for that to happen, so if you (or someone else) has other 
suggestions to try, I'd be glad to hear about them (and even more glad to see 
patches ;))

If nothing comes up, I'm inclined to apply the ugly patch I posted and 
accompany it with a warning that it won't work for tramp >= 2.1 and perhaps 
additionally wrap it so that if it fails, it does so with an understandable 
explanation what happened.