Subject: bug#37576: 27.0.50; [Windows] "Permission denied" error from call-process if executable not found

From: Juanma Barranquero <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2019 12:18:35 +0200

On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 12:07 PM Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
wrote:

> No, non-existing PATH elements are supposed to be ignored.

Ok, let me rephrase this.

Non-existent PATH element are ignored when searching, if the program is
found.

When the search fails, Emacs is now reporting "permission denied" if some
PATH element was non-existent, or "no such file or directory" otherwise. At
least on Windows.