From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Passing unicode filenames to start-process on Windows? Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2016 05:36:40 +0200 Message-ID: <83oacy2h87.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83si2a3cuo.fsf@gnu.org> <568D9DCA.5030003@lanl.gov> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1452137816 1582 80.91.229.3 (7 Jan 2016 03:36:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2016 03:36:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Davis Herring Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 07 04:36:52 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1aH1Na-00039n-Gk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2016 04:36:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56732 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aH1NZ-0003LA-KF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2016 22:36:49 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52578) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aH1NM-0003L3-NY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2016 22:36:37 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aH1NI-0003Jz-OX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2016 22:36:36 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:36166) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aH1NI-0003Jp-Lk; Wed, 06 Jan 2016 22:36:32 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:1371 helo=HOME-C4E4A596F7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aH1NG-0000rJ-CC; Wed, 06 Jan 2016 22:36:30 -0500 In-reply-to: <568D9DCA.5030003@lanl.gov> (message from Davis Herring on Wed, 06 Jan 2016 16:05:46 -0700) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:197721 Archived-At: > Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2016 16:05:46 -0700 > From: Davis Herring > > > 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.