GNU bug report logs - #42704
Documentation of call-process

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Gregory Heytings <ghe <at> sdf.org>

Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2020 09:30:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: fixed

Fixed in version 28.1

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Gregory Heytings <ghe <at> sdf.org>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Documentation of call-process
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2020 11:29:26 +0200 (CEST)

The documentation of 'call-process' doe not make reference to the variable 
'exec-path'.  It should.

Using '(setenv "PATH" "...")' does not have the expected effect for 
'call-process'.  The environment variable "PATH" is correctly updated, the 
variable 'process-environment' is also updated, but what 'call-process' 
actually uses to locate the executable is the variable 'exec-path'.  This 
should be clearly stated in the documentation.
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