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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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: bug#1642: grep fails with "Can't exec program"
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 23:46:55 +0200
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> 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?

More information was requested, but was apparently not given, so I'm
closing this bug report.  If this is still a problem, please reopen the
bug report.

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