GNU bug report logs - #75292
31.0.50; igc: (file-error "Doing vfork" "Bad address")

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Ihor Radchenko <yantar92 <at> posteo.net>
Cc: 75292 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#75292: 31.0.50; igc: (file-error "Doing vfork" "Bad address")
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2025 11:41:29 -0800

On 2025-01-02 11:29, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>>> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-error "Doing vfork" "Bad address")
>>>>    (call-process-shell-command "grep -anE '^:(Sourc.URL\\+?):[ \11[]+https://curiouscoding\\.nl/posts/static-search-tree/[]]*$' '/home/yantar92/Org/rss_archive_2019.org'" nil t)
...
> Could it be that this started happening when we began using
> posix_spawn instead of vfork?

If Emacs uses posix_spawn instead of vfork, shouldn't file-error report 
"Doing posix_spawn" instead of "Doing vfork"? Truth in advertising and 
all that....

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