Re: some accept-process-output races fixed; Tramp FIXMEs

[Stefan Monnier]

>> This has been the promise of the docstring "for ever", AFAIK.
>> Which means that if you have nothing else to do until the process dies,
>> then you're better off using nil for the timeout.
>> I don't know if that promise was broken by bugs in the code, OTOH.
>
> At least the w32 version of accept-process-output was broken in the
> past, see the comment in tramp-accept-process-output.  But this was Emacs
> 22 time, so hopefully it is fixed now.

I suggest you use a nil timeout in Emacs≥27.  If this reveals there are
still remaining bugs, we should fix them rather than work around them.

If the bugs have all been fixed already, then maybe we could also use
a nil timeout in older Emacsen, but we've lived with 0.1 in them, so
I think it's OK to keep using a suboptimal value there.


        Stefan