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From: Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 30350@debbugs.gnu.org, Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>,
	Sam Steingold <sds@podval.org>
Subject: bug#30350: 27.0.50; Newest master can't run processes on macOS
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2018 08:28:41 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180206082841.GA96771@breton.holly.idiocy.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <59f3f90b-f19d-71be-6cf9-de8a020db174@cs.ucla.edu>

On Mon, Feb 05, 2018 at 04:36:13PM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
> The Gnulib manual says that macOS faccessat (..., "FILE/", ...) incorrectly
> succeeds when FILE is a regular file, and Gnulib has code to work around
> that bug that should be in effect for Emacs. However, the Gnulib manual
> doesn't say that faccessat (..., "FILE/.", ...) incorrectly succeeds in this
> situation, nor that faccessat (..., "FILE/./", ...) does the right thing;
> and the test program I gave you didn't illustrate any bugs in this area so
> I'm not sure what's going on.

Bear in mind that file-accessible-directory-p works prior to
call-process being run. Call-process does something that breaks it.

Interestingly it breaks file-accessible-directory-p for *all* files in
the same directory, so

    (call-process "/usr/bin/true")
    (file-accessible-directory-p "/usr/bin/false")

fails, while

    (call-process "/usr/bin/true")
    (file-accessible-directory-p "/bin/zsh")

works correctly. (Well, call-process itself fails, but
file-accessible-directory-p works.)

I haven’t been able to work out what it is that call-process is doing
that causes this.

-- 
Alan Third





  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-02-06  8:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-04 20:15 bug#30350: 27.0.50; Newest master can't run processes on macOS Philipp
2018-02-04 20:20 ` Philipp Stephani
2018-02-04 21:06   ` Alan Third
2018-02-04 21:12     ` Alan Third
2018-02-04 21:28       ` Philipp Stephani
2018-02-04 22:49         ` Alan Third
2018-02-04 23:16           ` Philipp Stephani
2018-02-10 10:47     ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-04 20:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-05 19:13 ` Paul Eggert
2018-02-05 19:18   ` Alan Third
2018-02-05 23:56     ` Paul Eggert
2018-02-06  0:26       ` Philipp Stephani
2018-02-06  0:36         ` Paul Eggert
2018-02-06  0:43           ` Philipp Stephani
2018-02-06 23:38             ` Paul Eggert
2018-02-06  8:28           ` Alan Third [this message]
2018-02-06 22:07         ` Philipp Stephani
2018-02-06 22:10           ` Philipp Stephani
2018-02-11 15:56             ` Philipp Stephani
2018-02-06 22:44           ` Alan Third
2018-02-06 22:53             ` Noam Postavsky
2018-02-11 16:01             ` Philipp Stephani
2018-02-11 21:15               ` Alan Third
2020-08-16 16:53                 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-02  4:54                   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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