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emacs: tramp: detect wrapped gvfsd-fuse daemon #53763

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@liff liff commented Jan 10, 2019

Motivation for this change

Tramp checks for a running gvfsd-fuse process to figure out whether to enable gvfs-based. Its tramp-compat-process-running-p function uses /proc/<pid>/comm to check for the name of running process(es). In Nix, the gvfsd processes are launched via wrappers and the name of gvfsd-fuse in
comm in Linux is .gvfsd-fuse-wra (truncated to 15 characters) which means the process is not detected and tramp-gvfs-enabled ends up with nil even when gvfs is available.

This patch adds .gvfsd-fuse-wrapped to the list of process names to check when determining the value of tramp-gvfs-enabled.

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  • Tested using sandboxing (nix.useSandbox on NixOS, or option sandbox in nix.conf on non-NixOS)
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    • NixOS
    • macOS
    • other Linux distributions
  • Tested via one or more NixOS test(s) if existing and applicable for the change (look inside nixos/tests)
  • Tested compilation of all pkgs that depend on this change using nix-shell -p nox --run "nox-review wip"
  • Tested execution of all binary files (usually in ./result/bin/)
  • Determined the impact on package closure size (by running nix path-info -S before and after)
  • Assured whether relevant documentation is up to date
  • Fits CONTRIBUTING.md.

Tramp checks for a running `gvfsd-fuse` process to figure out whether to enable
gvfs-based. Its `tramp-compat-process-running-p` function uses
`/proc/<pid>/comm` to check for the name of running process(es). In Nix, the
gvfsd processes are launched via wrappers and the name of `gvfsd-fuse` in
`comm` in Linux is `.gvfsd-fuse-wra` (truncated to 15 characters) which
means the process is not detected and `tramp-gvfs-enabled` ends up with
`nil` even when gvfs is available.

This patch adds `.gvfsd-fuse-wrapped` to the list of process names to check when
determining the value of `tramp-gvfs-enabled`.
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Mic92 commented Jan 10, 2019

Would it help if we wrap gvfsd-fuse with --argv0 to gvfsd-fuse set when calling makeWrapper?

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liff commented Jan 10, 2019

Oh, I’ll try that out. Thanks.

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liff commented Jan 10, 2019

@Mic92 the wrapper already sets --argv0 (via wrapGAppsHook -> wrapProgram).

However, even if it didn’t it wouldn’t help because Tramp is specifically looking at the comm attribute, which comes from /proc/<pid>/comm which, as far as I can tell, could only be changed by the program that was execed.

@matthewbauer matthewbauer merged commit 9316105 into NixOS:master Feb 8, 2019
@liff liff deleted the emacs/tramp-process-fix branch May 19, 2022 19:01
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