From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#71655: Eshell external commands do not work under GNU Emacs for Windows Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2024 22:12:34 +0300 Message-ID: <86y170oifx.fsf@gnu.org> References: Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="33059"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 71655@debbugs.gnu.org To: James Hilling Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 19 21:13:25 2024 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1sK0kG-0008Pw-Pe for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 19 Jun 2024 21:13:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sK0ju-00011M-99; Wed, 19 Jun 2024 15:13:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sK0jr-00010c-8I for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Jun 2024 15:12:59 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:5::43]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sK0jr-0007uH-0H for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Jun 2024 15:12:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1sK0ju-0004Mb-0w for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Jun 2024 15:13:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2024 19:13:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 71655 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 71655-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B71655.171882437616756 (code B ref 71655); Wed, 19 Jun 2024 19:13:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 71655) by debbugs.gnu.org; 19 Jun 2024 19:12:56 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55713 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1sK0ji-0004Lz-4k for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 19 Jun 2024 15:12:56 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:41766) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1sK0jg-0004Lh-1p for 71655@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 19 Jun 2024 15:12:49 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sK0jW-0007sc-EV; Wed, 19 Jun 2024 15:12:38 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=1EImajEAliPpRdgG22RRXA0exEvMy0cqYLr4DOvDGfY=; b=M2jn6pZGeXaU KEQqEZlmcHhCQ5LIR3Vn46reT9U8+C7UNkCUOAEKGMmrObk2DuzmzVFvUxak59NQoR+pe6yPVlgvt hQ3xxJUnj1kltTUQJYr2EeRXVTrXWUfuSWZ6wFqsIzBWrXAq2J1eaxUo+zrD4JImFlcdorFaflAeF U2mw/IdAri5VFK6oLxzl/zX87MvslMhnWh3dcV1FWfG/HrSsiSSzkSO0VNdimCAKXdjDoxaClWASD 5mWqxF4HvoLIVsvsqFHEVuSGgF54aiipwkdbcLoxfV03T8j9qiyqrXoYNkMZYBUIB4OW33Nsc1mmB 77Ue6pMz8T4XL91JGnkXrQ==; In-Reply-To: (bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:287500 Archived-At: > Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2024 15:53:14 +0000 > From: James Hilling via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, > the Swiss army knife of text editors" > > There appears to be a potential bug with Eshell when running external commands on GNU Emacs for > Windows, i.e. not WSL/WSL2/Cygwin. I don't think this has anything to do with Eshell. Or Emacs, for that matter. See below. > To reproduce: > > Start Emacs with "-Q", open Eshell with `M-x eshell`, run `winget.exe --help`. > > (Eshell) $ winget --help > > Opening input file: Invalid argument, C:/Users/MyUser/AppData/Local/Microsoft/WindowsApps/winget.exe > > For some reason external commands such as `winget.exe` do not appear to be working properly. Try (Eshell) $ ls -l C:/Users/MyUser/AppData/Local/Microsoft/WindowsApps/winget.exe What do you see? Does what you see explain the error? I think this page explains what is going on: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58296925/what-is-zero-byte-executable-files-in-windows