From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Generalize start-process with keyword args Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 20:39:17 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87d24d3uwz.fsf-ueno@gnu.org> <86a8zc21ua.fsf@gmail.com> <83oanszq6u.fsf@gnu.org> <8661a01stb.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1426552787 3671 80.91.229.3 (17 Mar 2015 00:39:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 00:39:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andy Moreton Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 17 01:39:38 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1YXfXk-00044b-N1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2015 01:39:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52296 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YXfXj-0007Wv-EL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Mar 2015 20:39:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42126) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YXfXX-0007Wo-ND for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Mar 2015 20:39:24 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YXfXU-0007t5-3V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Mar 2015 20:39:23 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:41826) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YXfXT-0007sz-Vj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Mar 2015 20:39:20 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ArsTAPOG1lQXW5EB/2dsb2JhbABbgwaDX4VTwGUEAgKBDUQBAQEBAQF8hA0BBAFWIxALDiYSFBgNJIg4CM4jAQEBAQYCAR+PeAeEKgWrNyKECiKCcwEBAQ X-IPAS-Result: ArsTAPOG1lQXW5EB/2dsb2JhbABbgwaDX4VTwGUEAgKBDUQBAQEBAQF8hA0BBAFWIxALDiYSFBgNJIg4CM4jAQEBAQYCAR+PeAeEKgWrNyKECiKCcwEBAQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.09,536,1418101200"; d="scan'208";a="113729318" Original-Received: from 23-91-145-1.cpe.pppoe.ca (HELO pastel.home) ([23.91.145.1]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 16 Mar 2015 20:39:18 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id B3006D65; Mon, 16 Mar 2015 20:39:17 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <8661a01stb.fsf@gmail.com> (Andy Moreton's message of "Mon, 16 Mar 2015 22:27:44 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:183937 Archived-At: >> Can you point out where does this assumption live in the code? > In the callers of start-process, which assume that an executeable shell > script can be used as the command argument. Could you be more concrete? And give an example of such a script? Stefan