>> > Just to be clear, the first time I connect with darcs via ssh to a
>> > particular server, darcs hangs and won't respond to any ordinary kill (or
>> > ctrl-C). It can still be killed with kill -9.
>> Okay, that explains what I've been seeing.
> Does this mean you've been experiencing the same trouble?
I've been pulling, swearing, C-\-ing, rm _darcs/lock-ing, and trying
again. Never bothered to debug it, as I was convinced it was
a network problem rather than a Darcs problem.
>> > The silliness of it all is that I use ssh-agent, so the control-master
>> > stuff is all redundant.
>>
>> FWIW, it isn't -- you still avoid multiple ssh handshakes. An ssh
>> handshake can take up to 10 seconds on a slow connection, and up to
>> a minute on slow machines. (And people are setting cheap MIPS and ARM
>> machines as network servers.)
> Good point. Only, it's not a good tradeoff to speed up darcs operation,
> and occasionally hang indefinitely. :(
I agree, I'm just arguing that fixing the issue is still worthwile.
Juliusz
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