bug#29735: 27.0.50; It must be possible to suspend all timers

[Michael Albinus]

In Tramp's start-file-process implementations, there are code segments
which must be guaranteed not to be interrupted by timers. Tramp
implements this as

(let (timer-list timer-idle-list) ...)

but this is just a hack. Inside these code segments, it must still be
possible for Tramp to activate own timers, in order to handle process
output from remote side robustly.


In GNU Emacs 27.0.50 (build 41, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.25)
 of 2017-12-16 built on detlef
Repository revision: f63d9f86b5688ac84ec6e7eecdbb6cac103dbcf2
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11905000
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