Subject: bug#9792: 24.0.50; process-file and space in filename

From: Michael Albinus <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 09:12:22 +0200

Leo <[email-masked]> writes:

> On 2011-10-20 02:02 +0800, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Who calls call-process?
>
> `process-file' calls it.
>
>> In general, setting a breakpoint in Fcall_process should produce a
>> Lisp-level backtrace when you type "bt" after the breakpoint breaks,
>> if you start GDB from the Emacs `src' directory.
>
> In this case I probably won't be able to help much.

`process-file' is a Lisp function. It would be sufficient to activate
edebug for it, for example via

M-x load-library RET edebug
M-: (edebug-instrument-function 'process-file)

When the debugger enters `process-file', you can produce the backtrace
with "d".

> Leo

Best regards, Michael.