From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luc Teirlinck Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Patch: new function process-file (call-process with file handlers) Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 14:30:09 -0500 (CDT) Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200410241930.i9OJU9c28509@raven.dms.auburn.edu> References: <863c0dnxxe.fsf@ketchup.de.uu.net> <86y8i5m9tf.fsf@ketchup.de.uu.net> <877jppm5x6.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <864qklqk17.fsf@ketchup.de.uu.net> <200410240117.i9O1H3G15317@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <86fz44wkfi.fsf@ketchup.de.uu.net> <200410241846.i9OIk5T25944@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1098646346 6639 80.91.229.6 (24 Oct 2004 19:32:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 19:32:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: kai@emptydomain.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 24 21:32:11 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CLo66-0000UN-00 for ; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 21:32:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CLoDi-0000sR-DU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 15:40:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CLoDa-0000sL-JD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 15:39:54 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CLoDa-0000s9-6S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 15:39:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CLoDa-0000s6-2M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 15:39:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [131.204.53.104] (helo=manatee.dms.auburn.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CLo5g-00023b-Hg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 15:31:44 -0400 Original-Received: from raven.dms.auburn.edu (raven.dms.auburn.edu [131.204.53.29]) by manatee.dms.auburn.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i9OJVgiU000791; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 14:31:42 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (from teirllm@localhost) by raven.dms.auburn.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id i9OJU9c28509; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 14:30:09 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: raven.dms.auburn.edu: teirllm set sender to teirllm@dms.auburn.edu using -f Original-To: teirllm@dms.auburn.edu In-reply-to: <200410241846.i9OIk5T25944@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (message from Luc Teirlinck on Sun, 24 Oct 2004 13:46:05 -0500 (CDT)) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:28843 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:28843 >>From my previous message: I would guess that process-file has to handle a nil value for INFILE in exactly the same way that call-process does: if (nargs >= 2 && ! NILP (args[1])) { infile = Fexpand_file_name (args[1], current_buffer->directory); CHECK_STRING (infile); } else infile = build_string (NULL_DEVICE); Does anybody know how one can do `build_string (NULL_DEVICE)' portably from Lisp? I apparently misdiagnosed the problem. I set infile to "/dev/null" on GNU/Linux and it did not help. Sincerely, Luc.