GNU bug report logs - #56013
28.1; "gio open" and "xdg-open" fail silently under eshell

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Jeff Kowalski <jeff.kowalski <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2022 06:27:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 75304

Found in versions 28.1, 29.4

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Message #35 received at 56013 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs <at> gmail.com>
To: Jeff Kowalski <jeff.kowalski <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 56013 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>,
 Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: bug#56013: 28.1; "gio open" and "xdg-open" fail silently under
 eshell
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2022 14:59:30 -0800

On 11/22/2022 1:00 PM, Jeff Kowalski wrote:
> Thanks for the response and suggestion.
>  From eshell,
>       λ xdg-open file.txt
> exits immediately, without opening file.txt, and
>       λ cat | xdg-open file.txt | cat
> shows the same behavior, but
>       λ setsid -w xdg-open file.txt
> opens the file as expected.

Is this with Emacs 28 or 29? In 29, `cat | xdg-open file.txt | cat` 
should work as expected (I hope).

If it doesn't, then the solution I had in mind (make `xdg-open` use a 
pipe for its IO) probably wouldn't work, leaving us back at square one 
for this bug...
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