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26.0.90; Silent fail with `rst-compile-pdf-preview'

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From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: stefan <at> merten-home.de, 30063 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Simen Heggestøyl <simenheg <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#30063: 26.0.90; Silent fail with `rst-compile-pdf-preview'
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 09:30:30 -0500

On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 8:49 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:

> Yes, we could do that.  But can we signal an error only when the
> command fails?  That should minimize false negatives.

I think it's a bit tricky due to being asynchronous, though it should be doable.

> Also please note that the shell command as written is unportable: the
> ";" part will not work on MS-Windows, we need to use "&" instead.  But
> that's a separate issue.

"&" would do the wrong thing for a POSIX sh compatible shell, so the
only way to fix that would be to avoid the shell entirely like Glenn
hinted at.

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