From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: executable-find in files.el
Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 16:58:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ekc9lurh.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87fywt6128.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> In my view, the point of executable-find is to figure out whether there is
> a command that we can run. If it tells us "I found /ssh:foo/bar/baz", but
> then call-process fails because it doesn't work through Tramp, I think it's
> a problem.
Tramp does not consider `exec-path' (it uses `tramp-remote-path'
instead of). The reason is that `exec-path' would be ambiguous for
Tramp - it is needed to find local executables (say "ssh") and remote
ones.
I agree with Stefan that, as long as `file-executable-p' returns
meaningful values for remote files, there must be a meaning for
`exec-path', `executable-find' and `start-process' as well in the
remote case.
For `call-process' this has been done already, although I don't
understand why a new function (`process-file') was needed. Otherwise
the problem mentioned by Stefan wouldn't exist.
> Stefan
Best regards, Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-14 14:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <E1DVuFh-0001h1-GE@monty-python.gnu.org>
2005-05-11 18:29 ` executable-find in files.el Eli Zaretskii
2005-05-11 19:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-05-11 22:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-05-11 23:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-05-11 23:50 ` David Kastrup
2005-05-12 1:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-05-12 6:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-05-12 12:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-05-12 13:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-05-14 14:58 ` Michael Albinus [this message]
2005-05-15 0:21 ` Richard Stallman
2005-05-16 19:27 ` Michael Albinus
2005-05-16 22:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-05-17 22:03 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-05-17 22:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-05-18 13:08 ` Richard Stallman
2005-05-17 4:36 ` Richard Stallman
2005-05-17 16:32 ` Michael Albinus
2005-05-18 5:19 ` Richard Stallman
2005-05-18 13:08 ` Richard Stallman
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