Lars Ingebrigtsen <la...@gnus.org> writes: Hi Lars,
>>> My emacs get stuck with 100% cpu when started from a directory ending with >>> ".tar". Sure, this is the Tramp archive handler. But it shall be invoked only when the file name ends with ".tar/" - see the trailing slash. >>> For example, the following commands trigger the error: >>> - mkdir test.tar >>> - cd test.tar >>> - emacs Yes. But is this a real scenario? > I have not tried to debug further, but this strace seems to indicate > that this might be Tramp-related, so I've added Michael to the CCs -- > perhaps it'll be immediately obvious to him what the problem is. :-) Hmm, Tramp shall return with an error message (possibly) or give up. Will investigate. Anyway, setting tramp-archive-enabled to nil should mitigate the problem. Best regards, Michael.