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* bug#21831: 24.5 on Windows; start-process modifies its PROGRAM argument
@ 2015-11-04 20:31 Cornelius Mika
  2015-11-04 21:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Cornelius Mika @ 2015-11-04 20:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 21831

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start-process normalizes the given PROGRAM path by destructively modifying
its contents.
This is problematic if the path variable is reused later on.

Minimal repro:
(let ((path "c:/Windows/System32/clip.exe"))
  (start-process "" nil path)
  path) ; => "c:\\Windows\\System32\\clip.exe"

In GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (i686-pc-mingw32)
 of 2015-04-11 on LEG570
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.3.9600
Configured using:
 `configure --prefix=/c/usr --host=i686-pc-mingw32'

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  value of $LANG: DEU
  locale-coding-system: cp1252

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  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

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