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: Generalize start-process with keyword args Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 21:40:25 +0200 Message-ID: <83oanszq6u.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87d24d3uwz.fsf-ueno@gnu.org> <86a8zc21ua.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1426534897 14034 80.91.229.3 (16 Mar 2015 19:41:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 19:41:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andy Moreton Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 16 20:41:28 2015 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 1YXatB-0003Dk-GX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Mar 2015 20:41:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51371 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YXatA-00052P-T5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Mar 2015 15:41:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42063) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YXasn-0004mj-7Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Mar 2015 15:41:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YXasi-0004Mp-9g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Mar 2015 15:41:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:44313) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YXasi-0004MX-09 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Mar 2015 15:40:56 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NLB00900KU3Z000@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Mar 2015 21:40:38 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NLB009OJLBPUD80@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Mon, 16 Mar 2015 21:40:38 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <86a8zc21ua.fsf@gmail.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 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:183925 Archived-At: > From: Andy Moreton > Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 19:12:45 +0000 > > start-process assumes that the system is capable of handling shebang > lines in shell scripts and launching them by executing a shell. Can you point out where does this assumption live in the code? > It would be useful to have a way to have start-process have an option to > start the new process via a shell, so that existing code that assumes > that it can use start-process with an executable shell script can also > be made to work on Windows. The Windows shells cannot run Unix shell script, so I'm not sure I understand how would you like this to work.