Subject: bug#17666: 24.3.91; [regression] call-process in read-only buffers

From: "Roland Winkler" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2014 10:01:52 -0500

evaluate the following with emacs -Q

;; running a process with no output via call-process
;; in any read-only buffer will do
(with-temp-buffer
  (let ((buffer-read-only t))
    (call-process "true" nil t)))

No problem with emacs 24.3

24.3.91:  Buffer is read-only: #<killed buffer>

In GNU Emacs 24.3.91.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.4.2)
 of 2014-05-12 on regnitz
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11103000
System Description:	Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS

Important settings:
  value of $LC_COLLATE: C
  value of $LANG: en_US.ISO-8859-15
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-9-unix

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