From unknown Sun Jun 22 07:27:17 2025 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.509 (Entity 5.509) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 From: bug#7079 <7079@debbugs.gnu.org> To: bug#7079 <7079@debbugs.gnu.org> Subject: Status: 24.0.50; shelling out picks up ghost error about find Reply-To: bug#7079 <7079@debbugs.gnu.org> Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2025 14:27:17 +0000 retitle 7079 24.0.50; shelling out picks up ghost error about find reassign 7079 emacs submitter 7079 Joseph Brenner severity 7079 normal thanks From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Mon Sep 20 19:20:18 2010 Received: (at submit) by debbugs.gnu.org; 20 Sep 2010 23:20:18 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oxpej-0001Bg-0c for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 19:20:18 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oxpeg-0001BZ-UR for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 19:20:16 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oxph6-0001fA-ET for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 19:22:45 -0400 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on eggs.gnu.org X-Spam-Level: **** X-Spam-Status: No, score=4.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, FSL_HELO_NON_FQDN_1, HELO_LOCALHOST, RCVD_IN_RP_RNBL, RDNS_DYNAMIC autolearn=no version=3.3.1 Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]:43480) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oxph6-0001f6-8v for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 19:22:44 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=50220 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Oxph4-0000lX-H6 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 19:22:44 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oxph2-0001ee-QJ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 19:22:42 -0400 Received: from m208-84.dsl.rawbw.com ([198.144.208.84]:38714 helo=localhost) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oxph2-0001eQ-4P for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 19:22:40 -0400 Received: by localhost (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D02924980E1; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 16:22:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Joseph Brenner To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Subject: 24.0.50; shelling out picks up ghost error about find Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 16:22:40 -0700 Message-ID: <87eicoov9b.fsf@kzsu.stanford.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-Spam-Score: -6.4 (------) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: submit X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org X-Spam-Score: -6.4 (------) I often see elisp code using things such as compile-command returning spurious errors from a "find" shell command which was not run. Recipie: (1) With the following elisp in the file ~/tmp/baby-perlnow.el: (provide 'baby-perlnow) (defun perlnow-run-check () "Run a perl check on the current buffer." (interactive) (let* ( (full-file (buffer-file-name)) (location (file-name-directory full-file)) (filename (file-name-nondirectory full-file)) (default-directory location) ) (save-buffer) (setq compile-command (format "perl -Mstrict -cw \'%s\'" filename)) (compile compile-command) )) (2) And with some perl code such as ~/tmp/Dummy.pm: package Dummy; use 5.008; use strict; use warnings; sub whatever { print "whatever\n"; } 1; (3) Then run emacs like so: emacs -Q -l ~/tmp/baby-perlnow.el ~/tmp/Dummy.pm And do an: ESC-x perlnow-run-check (4) In the *compilation* buffer, you may see something like: -*- mode: compilation; default-directory: "~/tmp/" -*- Compilation started at Mon Sep 20 10:52:28 perl -Mstrict -cw 'Dummy.pm' find: paths must precede expression: Rep.pm Usage: find [-H] [-L] [-P] [-Olevel] [-D help|tree|search|stat|rates|opt|exec] [path...] [expression] Dummy.pm syntax OK Compilation finished at Mon Sep 20 10:52:28 Note that nothing is actually running a "find" command here, and yet we see the error message from find. You can verify that the perl check command is not causing the problem by doing this in a shell window: cd ~/tmp perl -Mstrict -cw 'Dummy.pm' Dummy.pm syntax OK Note that the find error is referring to some other file, Rep.pm which as it happens *was* being edited in another emacs process but not *this* one. The only buffers open in the -Q emacs are: . Dummy.pm 95 Perl ~/tmp/Dummy.pm *scratch* 191 Lisp Interaction * *Messages* 89 Fundamental I've seen this behavior in a number of contexts... perhaps notably in the Emacs::Rep code (still under development) which does some "shell-command-to-string" calls internally. 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helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QqAEZ-0003dI-Ko for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 07 Aug 2011 16:46:08 -0400 Received: from vm-emlprdomr-02.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.143]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QqAEY-0003dB-4J for 7079@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 07 Aug 2011 16:46:06 -0400 Received: from furball (c-71-192-165-84.hsd1.ct.comcast.net [71.192.165.84]) (authenticated bits=0) by vm-emlprdomr-02.its.yale.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p77Kj6EB005325 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Sun, 7 Aug 2011 16:45:07 -0400 From: Chong Yidong To: Joseph Brenner Subject: Re: 24.0.50; shelling out picks up ghost error about find Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2011 16:45:06 -0400 Message-ID: <878vr5j6i5.fsf@stupidchicken.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.71 on 130.132.50.143 X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 7079 Cc: 7079@debbugs.gnu.org X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) > I often see elisp code using things such as compile-command returning > spurious errors from a "find" shell command which was not run. Sorry for the very late reply, but do you still see this bug with the latest trunk? I can't reproduce the problem using the recipe you provided; all I get is -*- mode: compilation; default-directory: "~/temp/" -*- Compilation started at Sun Aug 7 16:43:23 perl -Mstrict -cw 'foo.pm' foo.pm syntax OK Compilation finished at Sun Aug 7 16:43:23 From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Mon Mar 12 00:36:20 2012 Received: (at control) by debbugs.gnu.org; 12 Mar 2012 04:36:20 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45773 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1S6wzN-0000HN-9c for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:36:20 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:50922) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1S6wz6-0000Gi-To for control@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:36:04 -0400 Received: from bb116-14-103-36.singnet.com.sg ([116.14.103.36]:59837 helo=ulysses) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S6wWF-0007cR-7w for control@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:05:59 -0400 From: Chong Yidong To: control@debbugs.gnu.org Subject: close 7079 Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:05:52 +0800 Message-ID: <87y5r6piov.fsf@gnu.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: control X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) close 7079 thanks From unknown Sun Jun 22 07:27:17 2025 Received: (at fakecontrol) by fakecontrolmessage; To: internal_control@debbugs.gnu.org From: Debbugs Internal Request Subject: Internal Control Message-Id: bug archived. 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