GNU bug report logs - #71655
Eshell external commands do not work under GNU Emacs for Windows

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Message #50 received at control <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs <at> gmail.com>
To: dnym <at> duck.com, 74150 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#74150: ESHELL support for executables that are NTFS file
 system reparse points
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 18:04:07 -0700

unarchive 71655
forcemerge 71655 74150
thanks

On 10/31/2024 5:18 PM, dnym--- via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss 
army knife of text editors wrote:
> DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM:
> 
> None of the executables inside 
> C:/Users/Me/AppData/Local/Microsoft/WindowsApps
> can be run from the command line under eshell.
> 
> The error I receive when trying to run any of these executables looks like:
> 
> Opening input file: Invalid argument,
> C:/Users/Me/AppData/Local/Microsoft/WindowsApps/notepad.exe
> 
> What I've been able to glean so far is that these executables, all of which
> are 0k in size, are in fact NTFS reparse points which contain metadata
> that is supposed to be read by the appropriate filter driver.

Thanks for the report. This is bug#71655[1], which is already fixed in 
Emacs 30, so marking as a dupe.

[1] https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=71655

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