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

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Richard Copley <rcopley <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2019 19:45:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 27.0.50

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
To: Richard Copley <rcopley <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 37576 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#37576: 27.0.50; [Windows] "Permission denied" error from call-process if executable not found
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2019 00:16:32 +0200

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On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 12:06 AM Richard Copley <rcopley <at> gmail.com> wrote:

> On continuing in the debugger, it prints "forward-sexp: Searching for
program: Permission denied, xyzzy" in the *Messages* buffer.

With that very same revision, just bootstrapped a few minutes ago, and with
your recipe, I get

forward-sexp: Searching for program: No such file or directory, xyzzy

This is on Windows 10, with a MSYS2 64-bit build.

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