Subject: bug#13344: 24.3.50; Gnus error c:/dev/fd/0

From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 23:41:00 +0100

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

> Looks like this comes from this snippet in epg.el:epg--start:
>
>     ;; Set GPG_TTY and TERM for pinentry-curses.  Note that we can't
>     ;; use `terminal-name' here to get the real pty name for the child
>     ;; process, though /dev/fd/0" is not portable.
>     (with-temp-buffer
>       (when (= (call-process "tty" "/dev/fd/0" t) 0)
> 	(delete-backward-char 1)
> 	(setq terminal-name (buffer-string))))
>
> Obviously, this will never work on Windows.

Looks like this code was introduced by this patch:

2012-12-28  Daiki Ueno  <[email-masked]>

	* epg.el: Support pinentry-curses.

So perhaps that code should just be disabled for Windows?        

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