New subject: Patches Applied for 21.1.8

Friday, 22 October 1999

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>>>> "Craig" == Craig Lanning
<CraigL(a)DyCon.com&gt; writes: 
    Craig> At 01:44 PM 10/21/99 +0200, Adrian Aichner wrote:
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>>>>>> "APA" == Adrian Aichner
<aichner(a)ecf.teradyne.com&gt; writes:
> 
> Hello All,
>      APA> It works nicely on NT, but 95/98 needs investigation.
    APA> I'll try to work this out with Craig Lanning.
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> 
> could any of you with access to Windows95 or Windows98 please try
> following patch against 21.2-b19, please? 
    Craig> It still doesn't work.

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> I'll try to make a patch in time for 21.1.8 then.
> 
> Please send me back any output XEmacs produced on STDERR (it will go
> to the DOS box, if you start XEmacs from there). 
    Craig> That output is shown right after the (call-process ...) call.

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> Please report output and errors for these test-cases:
> 
> Here is what I get on Windows NT:
> 
> (call-process "cmd" nil '(t t) nil)
> Microsoft(R) Windows NT(TM)
> (C) Copyright 1985-1996 Microsoft Corp. 
    Craig> Win98 doesn't have "cmd".

Sorry, I wasn't thinking.

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> d:\Users\AichnerAd\tmp\J750>
> (call-process "command" nil '(t t) nil)
> Spawning child process: Exec format error 
    Craig> I get the same error.

This is documented in
nt\PROBLEMS

BTW: Is "minitar.exe" a 16bit application?

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> (call-process "dir" nil '(t t) nil
"c:\\")
> AUTOEXEC.BAT	   READER5	      cygnus		 notes
> Acrobat3	   RECYCLER	      enscript		 ntldr
> CONFIG.SYS	   Real		      ffastun.ffa	 pagefile.sys
> I386		   TEMP		      ffastun.ffl	 pali.pl
> IO.SYS		   WINNT	      ffastun.ffo	 perl
> MSDOS.SYS	   XEmacs	      ffastun0.ffx	 perl.old
> Multimedia\ Files  Xemacs.zip	      gcisdn		 telnet.log
> NTDETECT.COM	   autosave	      gnuserv-2_1p1	 tmp
> NTRESKIT	   boot.ini	      gstools
> Program\ Files	   cvs		      mks 
    Craig> "dir" is a built-in command of the "command" shell.
    Craig> Therefore, this gives the same error as "command" above.

    Craig> I then tried an "ls" command that I have:

    Craig> (call-process "ls" nil '(t t) nil "c:\\")
    Craig> create_child: exe=c:\BIN32\ls.exe,cmdline=c:\BIN32\ls.exe
    Craig> create_child.CreateProcess leads child PID -725391, changing to PID 725391
    Craig> Fatal error: assertion failed, file sysdep.c, line 353, pid != NULL

    Craig> saw no output and XEmacs locked up.

Ah, this is what I was looking for.
The problem must occur in the maipulation of cp->pid afterwards.

I'll work on another patch.

Regards,

Adrian

    Craig> Craig

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