From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Strange behaviour on Windows 10
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2019 16:23:09 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83d0flkh4y.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <824l0xoqfq.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Pascal Quesseveur on Fri, 27 Sep 2019 14:48:41 +0200)
> From: Pascal Quesseveur <pquessev@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2019 14:48:41 +0200
>
> #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
> >type xtest.cmd
> @echo off
> if exist "C:\Windows\System32" (echo OK) else (echo NOK)
> if exist "C:\Windows\System32\OpenSSH" (echo OK) else (echo NOK)
>
> >xtest
> OK
> OK
> #+END_EXAMPLE
>
> and in emacs -Q (version 26.1):
>
> #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
> (defun xtest()
> (interactive)
> (call-process "xtest" nil t nil))
> M-x xtest
> OK
> NOK
> #+END_EXAMPLE
One possible reason is that your Emacs is a 32-bit build. Windows
silently redirects all accesses to C:\Windows\System32 from 32-bit
programs to C:\Windows\SysWOW64. If there's no OpenSSH there, you get
an error.
> #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
> > which --version
> GNU which v2.20, Copyright (C) 1999 - 2008 Carlo Wood.
> (Modified for MS-Windows/MinGW by Eli Zaretskii.)
> > which ssh.exe
> which: no ssh.exe in (.;C:\Program...;C:\WINDOWS\System32\OpenSSH\;...)
> #+END_EXAMPLE
This which.exe is a 32-bit program, so it gets the same treatment from
Windows.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-27 13:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-27 12:48 Strange behaviour on Windows 10 Pascal Quesseveur
2019-09-27 13:23 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-09-27 14:15 ` Pascal Quesseveur
2019-09-27 18:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-30 9:14 ` Pascal Quesseveur
2019-09-30 9:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-30 12:47 ` Pascal Quesseveur
2019-09-30 13:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-27 13:45 ` Óscar Fuentes
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