GNU bug report logs - #1642
grep fails with "Can't exec program"

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "David L" <idht4n <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:30:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo, unreproducible

Done: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #20 received at 1642 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: "David L" <idht4n <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>, 1642 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: grep fails with "Can't exec program"
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 20:32:22 +0200

"David L" <idht4n <at> gmail.com> writes:

>>From what I can determine, execvp is failing in callproc.c, but I don' know
> why this would be intermittent:
>
>   execvp (new_argv[0], new_argv);
>   emacs_write (1, "Can't exec program: ", 20);

Are you still seeing this bug in newer Emacsen?

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