From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Program working with shell-command but not call-process
Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2014 00:51:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874myyt5sh.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAOj2CQRhLYK1tWB404RgD3JJ59s3pbr-s8_PJwwN0i=BvWJB9Q@mail.gmail.com
John Mastro <john.b.mastro@gmail.com> writes:
> Does anyone know what situation would result in this working:
>
> (shell-command-to-string "git --version")
> ;=> it returns "git version 2.0.1"
>
> But not this:
>
> (with-output-to-string
> (call-process "git" nil standard-output nil "--version"))
> ;=> it returns ""
> ;=> `call-process' alone returns 53
Don't know anything about this, sorry. But considering the doc of
`call-process` - when you don't get a lisp error, Emacs found and
actually called git, and git exited with return value 53.
Dunno what makes the difference when you use a shell.
Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-03 22:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-03 16:46 Program working with shell-command but not call-process John Mastro
2014-07-03 22:51 ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
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2014-07-04 10:16 ` Joost Kremers
2014-07-04 15:21 ` Michael Heerdegen
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