From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nicolas Richard Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#21831: 24.5 on Windows; start-process modifies its PROGRAM argument Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2015 09:42:54 +0100 Message-ID: <874mh03khd.fsf@members.fsf.org> References: <838u6dtr5v.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1446713063 21005 80.91.229.3 (5 Nov 2015 08:44:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 08:44:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cornelius.mika@gmail.com To: 21831@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 05 09:44:11 2015 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 1ZuG9R-0005HJ-Um for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2015 09:44:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59132 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZuG9R-00036u-Is for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2015 03:44:09 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46586) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZuG9N-00036i-Js for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2015 03:44:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZuG9K-0000RU-Dt for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2015 03:44:05 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:35113) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZuG9K-0000RQ-AO for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2015 03:44:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1ZuG9K-0003Qi-4B for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2015 03:44:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Nicolas Richard Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2015 08:44:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 21831 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 21831-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B21831.144671300013121 (code B ref 21831); Thu, 05 Nov 2015 08:44:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 21831) by debbugs.gnu.org; 5 Nov 2015 08:43:20 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54054 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1ZuG8e-0003PZ-GZ for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2015 03:43:20 -0500 Original-Received: from mxin.ulb.ac.be ([164.15.128.112]:47571) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1ZuG8K-0003Op-2X for 21831@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2015 03:43:19 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AsoGAIEVO1akD4Xx/2dsb2JhbABegmmBJW+qdwEBAQEBAQaQVoQGGYV5AoIAAQEBAQEBgQuENQEBAQMBeQULCAMVDCUPAQQNT4gZAwoIvTkNhDwBAQEHAQEBAR+GDYVFglOCVIQSBZZIhR2GEoQWhmmLZYdSY4IRHYFXPTSFHwEBAQ Original-Received: from mathsrv4.ulb.ac.be (HELO localhost) ([164.15.133.241]) by smtp.ulb.ac.be with ESMTP; 05 Nov 2015 09:42:54 +0100 In-Reply-To: <838u6dtr5v.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 04 Nov 2015 23:01:48 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 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:108473 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: Cornelius Mika >> Minimal repro: >> (let ((path "c:/Windows/System32/clip.exe")) >> (start-process "" nil path) >> path) ; => "c:\\Windows\\System32\\clip.exe" > I can reproduce this in Emacs 24.5, but not in the current development > sources. So this problem was already fixed as part of the development > since then, and I see the code which was added to avoid this. Thanks for checking. Did you see a test associated to this fix ? perhaps something like : (ert-deftest start-process-should-not-modify-arguments () "`start-process' must not modify its arguments in-place." ;; See bug#21831. (let* ((path (pcase system-type ('windows-nt "c:/Windows/System32/clip.exe") ('ms-dos "c:/command.com") (_ "/bin//sh"))) (samepath (copy-sequence path))) (start-process "" nil path) (should (equal path samepath)))) to be included in test/automated/process-tests.el I'm not sure what a good value of `path' might be. -- Nico.