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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Richard Copley <rcopley@gmail.com>
Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, Emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Improve reporting of I/O, access errors for Emacs
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 17:53:39 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <834l1cxpfw.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPM58oj4hBnzcZWd4tpLQ5KRzgSV=n_PCT+Db=tMDSpes5gH+Q@mail.gmail.com> (message from Richard Copley on Mon, 16 Sep 2019 12:07:09 +0100)

> From: Richard Copley <rcopley@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 12:07:09 +0100
> Cc: Emacs Development <Emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
> At the end of init_callproc in callproc.c, we check that PATH_GAME is file_accessible_directory_p. On
> Windows, PATH_GAME begins with a literal '%emacs_dir%', so this never works, but sets errno to
> ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED. Therefore, on every invocation of Emacs, I get this warning:
> 
>   Warning: game dir '%emacs_dir%/var/games/emacs': Permission denied

Thanks, should be fixed now.



  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-16 14:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-12  8:22 Improve reporting of I/O, access errors for Emacs Paul Eggert
2019-09-12 18:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-12 18:27   ` Paul Eggert
2019-09-12 19:34     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-12 20:32       ` Paul Eggert
2019-09-13  7:37         ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-18  2:25           ` Paul Eggert
2019-09-18  9:50             ` Richard Copley
2019-09-16 11:07 ` Richard Copley
2019-09-16 14:53   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-09-16 18:11     ` Richard Copley

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