GNU bug report logs - #31497
27.0.50; vc-hg doesn't separate standard error from standard output

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 18 May 2018 17:43:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: fixed

Found in version 27.0.50

Fixed in version 27.1

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #13 received at 31497 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com, 31497 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#31497: 27.0.50;
 vc-hg doesn't separate standard error from standard output
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2019 10:30:26 +0300

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2019 23:57:15 +0200
> Cc: 31497 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> I can confirm that this bug is still present in Emacs 27.  The command
> is started from vc-doc-command, which uses start-file-process, which
> uses start-process, which doesn't even allow separating stderr from
> stdin.
> 
> (In general, Emacs stderr/stdin handling is very frustrating.)

From the doc string of start-process:

  If you want to separate standard output from standard error, use
  ‘make-process’ or invoke the command through a shell and redirect
  one of them using the shell syntax.
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