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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: James Hilling <james@literate-devops.io>
Cc: 71655@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#71655: Eshell external commands do not work under GNU Emacs for Windows
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2024 22:12:34 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86y170oifx.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <nZSKB41mLU_x3SOTeoG0b9eclfZTn8Lu_T1pkf5LEZ9pWcolOqcnTlxbJGa7lziQvQoKHv-GFqSxX1-SYZu8_xJN2EkGq6uQGXtc1uLG8uc=@literate-devops.io> (bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org)

> Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2024 15:53:14 +0000
> From:  James Hilling via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> 
> There appears to be a potential bug with Eshell when running external commands on GNU Emacs for
> Windows, i.e. not WSL/WSL2/Cygwin.

I don't think this has anything to do with Eshell.  Or Emacs, for that
matter.  See below.

> To reproduce:
> 
> Start Emacs with "-Q", open Eshell with `M-x eshell`, run `winget.exe --help`.
> 
> (Eshell) $ winget --help
> 
> Opening input file: Invalid argument, C:/Users/MyUser/AppData/Local/Microsoft/WindowsApps/winget.exe
> 
> For some reason external commands such as `winget.exe` do not appear to be working properly.

Try

  (Eshell) $ ls -l C:/Users/MyUser/AppData/Local/Microsoft/WindowsApps/winget.exe

What do you see?  Does what you see explain the error?

I think this page explains what is going on:

  https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58296925/what-is-zero-byte-executable-files-in-windows





  reply	other threads:[~2024-06-19 19:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-06-19 15:53 bug#71655: Eshell external commands do not work under GNU Emacs for Windows James Hilling via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-06-19 19:12 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-06-19 19:22   ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-06-19 19:40     ` Jim Porter
2024-06-20  4:53       ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-06-20  5:34         ` Jim Porter
2024-06-20  7:45           ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-06-22 19:55             ` Jim Porter
2024-06-23  4:36               ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-06-24  1:40                 ` Jim Porter
2024-06-24  5:56                   ` Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-07-08  3:26                     ` Jim Porter
2024-07-08 11:09                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-06-19 19:30   ` Eli Zaretskii

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