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25.1; call-process vs. start-process and xdg-open

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From: Justin Burkett <justin <at> burkett.cc>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 25234 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25234: 25.1; call-process vs. start-process and xdg-open
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2016 16:58:39 +0000

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Thank you for the link. That seems to be exactly the issue, so you can
close this (or I'll do it when I figure out how).
On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 3:28 PM Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org> wrote:

>
> The issue (I assume) is that xdg-open creates its new process (evince,
> whatever) by forking. Then the original xdg-open process exits, which as
> far as Emacs knows means it is done.
>
> See eg https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=652262
>

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