From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Redirecting standard output Date: Sat, 07 May 2011 14:34:05 +0300 Message-ID: <83zkmykamq.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83oc402ky4.fsf@gnu.org> <8362q73dap.fsf@gnu.org> <876FF1E0-A9BB-4804-845C-46947AC085EE@swipnet.se> <4DB08348.3040208@lanl.gov> <83ei4sbuf3.fsf@gnu.org> <4DB3DFC1.7040303@swipnet.se> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1304768060 13180 80.91.229.12 (7 May 2011 11:34:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 May 2011 11:34:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 07 13:34:17 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QIfm4-0003Gt-Ea for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 May 2011 13:34:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56720 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QIfm4-0006VC-06 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 May 2011 07:34:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:33258) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QIfly-0006Uv-SA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 May 2011 07:34:13 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QIflu-0001us-6F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 May 2011 07:34:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:43948) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QIflt-0001um-VP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 May 2011 07:34:06 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LKT00I00PB3CD00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 May 2011 14:34:03 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.228.234.175]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LKT00IW6PGP4RA0@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Sat, 07 May 2011 14:34:03 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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 Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:139198 Archived-At: > From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen > Date: Sun, 01 May 2011 02:06:46 +0200 > > I've now done this. I have not verified that it works on Windows/DOS, > so if someone could do that (and fix up any bloopers :-), I'd be > grateful. > > The test case is: > > (call-process "echo" nil '(:file "/tmp/buffer") nil "hello") > > which should leave you with a file called "/tmp/buffer" with "hello\n" > as the contents. Thanks. It didn't work on DOS, because Emacs was trying to read from a temporary file which we don't create when :file is used. I fixed that; see the diffs for revno 104152.1.2 for the gory details (if you are interested).