GNU bug report logs - #18515
Document call-process behaviour with respect to default-directory

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Eli Barzilay <eli <at> barzilay.org>

Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 03:35:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: fixed, patch

Found in version 24.3

Fixed in version 25.2

Done: npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: eli <at> barzilay.org, michael.albinus <at> gmx.de, 18515 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#18515: 24.3; Documentation of `call-process'
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2017 19:20:43 -0400

tags 18515 fixed
close 18515 25.2
quit

npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net writes:

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
>>> >> +The process runs in `default-directory'.
>>> >
>>> > That's not true if `default-directory' is remote.
>>> 
>>> Aha, good point.  This is an important thing to document.
>>
>> I think at least the manual should say that the default-directory
>> alluded to here is that of the buffer which is current when the
>> respective functions are called.
>
> Hmm, seems a bit obvious to me, but okay.

Pushed to emacs-25 [1: c7ed57eaef].

1: 2017-04-06 18:50:54 -0400 c7ed57eaef46ed74ce926fc05dec9eaa5737f3d9
  Mention that processes start in default-directory (Bug#18515)
This bug report was last modified 8 years and 99 days ago.

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