From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#37576: 27.0.50; [Windows] "Permission denied" error from call-process if executable not found Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2019 20:19:20 +0300 Message-ID: <8336gb83qf.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87a7aja29z.fsf@igel.home> <875zl79zqk.fsf@igel.home> <838sq3856a.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="104777"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, schwab@linux-m68k.org, 37576-done@debbugs.gnu.org To: Richard Copley Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 02 19:23:26 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iFiLW-000R7V-At for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Oct 2019 19:23:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57996 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iFiLV-0005dD-1j for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Oct 2019 13:23:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38951) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iFiIG-0001ag-Rn for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Oct 2019 13:20:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iFiIF-0005pW-P0 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Oct 2019 13:20:04 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:57668) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iFiIF-0005pM-MT for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Oct 2019 13:20:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iFiIF-0005Z5-Fn for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Oct 2019 13:20:03 -0400 Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2019 17:20:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: cc-closed 37576 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Mail-Followup-To: 37576@debbugs.gnu.org, eliz@gnu.org, rcopley@gmail.com Original-Received: via spool by 37576-done@debbugs.gnu.org id=D37576.157003679221363 (code D ref 37576); Wed, 02 Oct 2019 17:20:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 37576-done) by debbugs.gnu.org; 2 Oct 2019 17:19:52 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38255 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iFiI3-0005YU-Qi for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 02 Oct 2019 13:19:52 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:58083) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iFiHy-0005YE-Ea for 37576-done@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 02 Oct 2019 13:19:49 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:57505) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iFiHt-0005mo-8L; Wed, 02 Oct 2019 13:19:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1833 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1iFiHr-0002Oh-Ph; Wed, 02 Oct 2019 13:19:40 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Richard Copley on Wed, 2 Oct 2019 18:09:14 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:168169 Archived-At: > From: Richard Copley > Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2019 18:09:14 +0100 > Cc: Andreas Schwab , Juanma Barranquero , 37576@debbugs.gnu.org > > I don't know what "ignore" means in this case, since call-process > should signal an error if it's unable to find the program. If you > mean that nonexistent directories should be treated as if they > existed, but didn't have the program in them, then I agree, and I've > now fixed the Windows build's behavior to match that of the Posix > builds in this case. > > I agree with that too, FWIW. Thanks. > > I still didn't hear from Richard confirming that his case is indeed > caused by a non-existent directory on PATH. > > Yes it is. (At least, there are non-existent directories in PATH, and I get the correct message now.) Thanks, then it's time to close this bug.