> From: Michael Albinus <michael.albi...@gmx.de> > Cc: suhailsingh...@gmail.com, 73...@debbugs.gnu.org > Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2024 17:26:40 +0200 > > Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> writes: > > >> Tramp is in a loop, waiting for results from the remote side. I don't > >> know how to implement this differently. > > > > What kind of loop? Can you point me to the code which loops there? > > The umbrella function is tramp-send-command. It sends the command to > remote via tramp-send-string, and waits then for a proper shell prompt > via tramp-wait-for-output. The latter function calls > tramp-wait-for-regexp, which loops using tramp-accept-process-output.
Did you try either calling accept-process-output with a non-zero timeout of, say, 5 msec, or inserting a (sit-for 0.005) into the loop which calls tramp-accept-process-output? Waiting for a process to respond should try not to spin without sleeping for a few milliseconds between polling attempts.
