From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#13344: 24.3.50; Gnus error c:/dev/fd/0 Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2013 09:48:09 +0200 Message-ID: <83mwwpie2u.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83zk0qi38y.fsf@gnu.org> <871ue1ddby.fsf-ueno@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1357285741 1564 80.91.229.3 (4 Jan 2013 07:49:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2013 07:49:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: nyc4bos@aol.com, larsi@gnus.org, 13344@debbugs.gnu.org To: Daiki Ueno Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 04 08:49:17 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Tr21l-00042R-0j for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Jan 2013 08:49:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52820 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tr21V-0007pG-CP for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Jan 2013 02:49:01 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:51095) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tr21S-0007p0-VI for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Jan 2013 02:48:59 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tr21R-0005Fb-MY for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Jan 2013 02:48:58 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:60544) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tr21R-0005FX-JD for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Jan 2013 02:48:57 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Tr21V-0003c8-QW; Fri, 04 Jan 2013 02:49:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, bugs@gnus.org Resent-Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2013 07:49:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 13344 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs,gnus X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 13344-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B13344.135728570113838 (code B ref 13344); Fri, 04 Jan 2013 07:49:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 13344) by debbugs.gnu.org; 4 Jan 2013 07:48:21 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42561 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Tr20p-0003b7-Lr for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 04 Jan 2013 02:48:20 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:49326) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Tr20l-0003ax-LZ for 13344@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 04 Jan 2013 02:48:16 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MG300600C6FXL00@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for 13344@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 04 Jan 2013 09:48:08 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MG3006AYCC8T650@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Fri, 04 Jan 2013 09:48:08 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <871ue1ddby.fsf-ueno@gnu.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:69375 Archived-At: > From: Daiki Ueno > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , nyc4bos@aol.com, 13344-done@debbugs.gnu.org > Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2013 09:03:13 +0900 > > >> ;; Set GPG_TTY and TERM for pinentry-curses. Note that we can't > >> ;; use `terminal-name' here to get the real pty name for the child > >> ;; process, though /dev/fd/0" is not portable. > >> (with-temp-buffer > >> (when (= (call-process "tty" "/dev/fd/0" t) 0) > >> (delete-backward-char 1) > >> (setq terminal-name (buffer-string)))) > >> > >> Obviously, this will never work on Windows. > > > > So perhaps that code should just be disabled for Windows? > > Oops. Though I tend to revert the previous patch, I've just added error > check around call-process for now. Sorry for the inconvenience. I don't think ignoring errors is TRT here. You are invoking a command that doesn't exist on Windows out of the box; however, if some user, for some reason, does have that command somewhere on PATH, it _will_ be invoked, but the results could be unpredictable, because the command by that name on MS-Windows can be unrelated to its Posix namesake. So it is best to avoid that call on Windows entirely.