From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Ediff error -- Permission denied (Win8)
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2015 18:34:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83k2yq5duk.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1425897576781-351770.post@n5.nabble.com>
> Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2015 03:39:36 -0700 (MST)
> From: dbbd <danybraun@free.fr>
>
> thanks for this post. In fact, I have the same permission denied problem
> (emacs 24.3 under windows7, cygwin installed and added to windows path, diff
> working in DOS-terminal; problem still present if I log in as
> Administrator). So I followed your advice, and here is the backtrack:
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-error "Searching for program"
> "permission denied" "diff")
> call-process("diff" nil #<buffer *ediff-diff<2>*> nil "c:\\Program Files (x86)\\GNU\\emacs-24.3\\README" "c:\\Program Files (x86)\\GNU\\emacs-24.3\\README.W32")
Does this happen with any 2 files anywhere on your system, or just
files in that directory?
Also, please start by searching all your directories on PATH and on
exec-path for a file or directory called 'diff', with or without any
extensions, and see if you find one.
> Any idea why the permission could be denied coming from emacs, but diff runs
> fine when started directly in the DOS terminal?
Is this a Cygwin Diff or a native Windows Diff program? If Cygwin, do
you really invoke it from cmd.exe, or do you invoke it from the Cygwin
Bash shell?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-09 16:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-01 20:30 Ediff error -- Permission denied (Win8) Yeşim Erke-Magent
2013-08-01 21:38 ` Óscar Fuentes
2013-08-01 23:39 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.2342.1375400381.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-08-02 4:44 ` Rustom Mody
2013-08-02 20:11 ` Yeşim Erke-Magent
2013-08-02 20:07 ` Yeşim Erke-Magent
2013-08-02 5:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.2337.1375393123.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-08-02 20:06 ` Yeşim Erke-Magent
2013-08-02 23:14 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.2361.1375422778.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-08-02 20:19 ` Yeşim Erke-Magent
2013-08-03 7:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-03-09 10:39 ` dbbd
2015-03-09 16:34 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2015-03-13 11:44 ` dbbd
2015-03-13 15:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
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