From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Davis Herring <herring@lanl.gov>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Passing unicode filenames to start-process on Windows?
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2016 05:36:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83oacy2h87.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <568D9DCA.5030003@lanl.gov> (message from Davis Herring on Wed, 06 Jan 2016 16:05:46 -0700)
> Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2016 16:05:46 -0700
> From: Davis Herring <herring@lanl.gov>
>
> > Would you happen to know any other possible workaround?
>
> You could use a temporary symbolic link, but those may still require
> root on Windows...
Yes, creating symlinks requires elevation on Windows.
Hard links are free from this problem, though. But I think using
hard links will cause complications: e.g., deleting a file will not
actually delete the original.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-07 3:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-06 15:20 Passing unicode filenames to start-process on Windows? Klaus-Dieter Bauer
2016-01-06 16:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-06 21:19 ` Klaus-Dieter Bauer
2016-01-06 23:05 ` Davis Herring
2016-01-07 3:36 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-01-07 16:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-07 23:31 ` Klaus-Dieter Bauer
2016-01-08 9:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-08 20:01 ` Klaus-Dieter Bauer
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