> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 21:14:22 +0000
> From: Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
> Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>,
> 17036@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> > Don't believe the sales people. MS's execvp is buggy, and even if weMaybe so, it's hard to say, since you never described what that should
> > forget about those bugs, it won't do what is expected here: it won't
> > keep the file descriptors open in the original process still open in
> > the overlaid process. That's because there's no 'exec' system call on
> > Windows, so execvp is _emulated_: the original process simply invokes
> > the new one as its child process, and then immediately exits.
> >
>
> That's good enough for restart-emacs.
do.
I very much doubt that this limitation would not render the whole
issue moot on Windows. E.g., how will restart-emacs then be different
from a simple call-process?
But again, since you didn't say what the
feature is supposed to do, ...