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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Cornelius Mika <cornelius.mika@gmail.com>
Cc: 21831-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21831: 24.5 on Windows; start-process modifies its PROGRAM argument
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2015 23:01:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <838u6dtr5v.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFQA6kxKF9qoCARH5uAemdxxR_v31z7=E2QOQyuVSeQP31X_Rg@mail.gmail.com>

> From: Cornelius Mika <cornelius.mika@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2015 21:31:55 +0100
> 
> start-process normalizes the given PROGRAM path by destructively modifying its
> contents.
> This is problematic if the path variable is reused later on.
> 
> Minimal repro:
> (let ((path "c:/Windows/System32/clip.exe"))
> (start-process "" nil path)
> path) ; => "c:\\Windows\\System32\\clip.exe"
> 
> In GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (i686-pc-mingw32)
> of 2015-04-11 on LEG570
> Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.3.9600
> Configured using:
> `configure --prefix=/c/usr --host=i686-pc-mingw32'

Thanks.

I can reproduce this in Emacs 24.5, but not in the current development
sources.  So this problem was already fixed as part of the development
since then, and I see the code which was added to avoid this.

So I'm marking this bug done.





  reply	other threads:[~2015-11-04 21:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-04 20:31 bug#21831: 24.5 on Windows; start-process modifies its PROGRAM argument Cornelius Mika
2015-11-04 21:01 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2015-11-05  8:42   ` Nicolas Richard
2015-11-05 18:14     ` Eli Zaretskii

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