From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Program working with shell-command but not call-process Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2014 00:51:26 +0200 Message-ID: <874myyt5sh.fsf@web.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1404427943 28759 80.91.229.3 (3 Jul 2014 22:52:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2014 22:52:23 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 04 00:52:16 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-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 1X2prT-0003YH-Po for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Jul 2014 00:52:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33767 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X2prT-0002Lm-EX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Jul 2014 18:52:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34997) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X2prB-0002L4-BT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jul 2014 18:52:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X2pr0-0006Oe-CH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jul 2014 18:51:57 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:36265) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X2pr0-0006OV-5o for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jul 2014 18:51:46 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1X2pqv-0003Bs-IH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Jul 2014 00:51:41 +0200 Original-Received: from dslb-094-217-127-201.pools.arcor-ip.net ([94.217.127.201]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 04 Jul 2014 00:51:41 +0200 Original-Received: from michael_heerdegen by dslb-094-217-127-201.pools.arcor-ip.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 04 Jul 2014 00:51:41 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dslb-094-217-127-201.pools.arcor-ip.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.92 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:JkrngDMhH1LnRf88OPsVbb6pelc= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:98534 Archived-At: John Mastro 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.