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From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Yegor Timoshenko <yegortimoshenko@gmail.com>
Cc: 29122@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#29122: eshell passes ARGV[0] as full path to executable
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2017 04:30:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fu9v932y.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAF4sQCP7GopE8o1pn6PARXdQKr2b356s+t_k-i2w0YYzqCS9WA@mail.gmail.com> (Yegor Timoshenko's message of "Fri, 3 Nov 2017 07:33:59 +0000")

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Yegor Timoshenko <yegortimoshenko@gmail.com> writes:

> $ ./a.out
> /home/chronos/a.out
>
> This prints full path to the executable instead of passing the actual
> ARGV[0].

Hmm, I don't think that's really a bug though.

> In other shells, say bash, ./a.out will result in `./a.out`
> being printed to stdout.

eshell is not a bash emulation.

> This is a recent build from master. This bug is also reproducible on
> latest stable release, 25.3.

At any rate, to change this would require adding some option to
make-process, as presently Emacs provides no way of calling a process
with argv[0] different from the called executable.





  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-03  8:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-03  7:33 bug#29122: eshell passes ARGV[0] as full path to executable Yegor Timoshenko
2017-11-03  8:30 ` Noam Postavsky [this message]
2017-11-03  8:54   ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]     ` <CAF4sQCM56=6y=1Lrg9RAQo+ui2kRSqRVHiarYYX=i6FGDv3C_A@mail.gmail.com>
2017-11-03 10:02       ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-13  3:29         ` Noam Postavsky

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