GNU bug report logs - #17036
Continuation for Emacs: invoking a process on exit?

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>

Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 22:48:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Fixed in version 29.1

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: rgm <at> gnu.org, schwab <at> linux-m68k.org, 17036 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rrt <at> sc3d.org
Subject: bug#17036: Continuation for Emacs: invoking a process on exit?
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2022 14:08:49 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> As implemented, it won't work reliably on MS-Windows, because execvp
> there doesn't do what you think it should.  I think we should use
> sys_spawnve instead.

Ah, I grepped for execvp to see whether we already used it, but didn't
notice that the hits were from Gnulib.

I'm not familiar with sys_spawnve -- can you do the adjustments?

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