From: Van Ly <van.ly@sdf.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>, 53739@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#53739: 28.0.91; "C-x d" fails when "emacs -Q" starts on NetBSD with plan9/bin on head of PATH
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2022 08:59:11 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <654b7fa8-6d12-289-b036-923f58eebfb6@SDF.ORG> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83sfsz2h0d.fsf@gnu.org>
On Fri, 4 Feb 2022, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> The problem, as I explained up-thread, seems to be that 'ls' returns a
> non-zero exit status, which insert-directory takes as a sign that the
> directory listing didn't work.
The "9 man intro" page has this paragraph containing the "exit" keyword.
'''
DIAGNOSTICS
In Plan 9, a program's exit status is an arbitrary text
string, while on Unix it is an integer. Section (1) of this
manual describes commands as though they exit with string
statuses. In fact, exiting with an empty status corresponds
to exiting with status 0, and exiting with any non-empty
string corresponds to exiting with status 1. See exits(3).
'''
>
> So: what does "ls -l" return as exit status when using the plan9
> variant of 'ls'?
>
Starting 'emacs -Q' at the end of this typescript reproduces the problem.
'''
; on GNU/Linux
% echo $SHELL
/usr/bin/zsh
% PATH=/usr/local/plan9/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin; export PATH
% echo $PATH
/usr/van/.opam/cs3110-2-21fa/bin:/usr/local/plan9/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin
% which ls
/usr/local/plan9/bin/ls
% ls -l
--rw-r--r-- M 0 van dialout 46 Feb 4 18:22 emacs28
--rw-r--r-- M 0 van dialout 47 Feb 4 18:14 emacs28q
% echo $?
0
% /usr/local/plan9/bin/ls -l
--rw-r--r-- M 0 van dialout 46 Feb 4 18:22 emacs28
--rw-r--r-- M 0 van dialout 47 Feb 4 18:14 emacs28q
% echo $?
0
'''
--
vl
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Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-02-02 22:12 bug#53739: 28.0.91; "C-x d" fails when "emacs -Q" starts on NetBSD with plan9/bin on head of PATH Van Ly
2022-02-03 7:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-03 8:01 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-02-03 9:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-03 10:01 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-02-03 10:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-03 11:02 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-02-03 11:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-03 11:28 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-02-03 13:20 ` Van Ly
2022-02-03 16:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-03 13:12 ` Van Ly
2022-02-03 16:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-04 0:59 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-02-04 4:29 ` Van Ly
2022-02-04 4:50 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-02-04 7:18 ` Van Ly
2022-02-04 7:55 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-02-04 8:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-04 8:59 ` Van Ly [this message]
2022-02-04 9:26 ` Van Ly
2022-02-04 11:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-05 3:07 ` Van Ly
2022-02-05 7:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-05 9:04 ` Van Ly
2022-02-05 9:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-05 10:57 ` Van Ly
2022-02-05 21:57 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-04 11:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-03 13:05 ` Van Ly
2022-02-03 16:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-03 13:00 ` Van Ly
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