Re: ielm uses the cat program

[Kevin Rodgers]

Juanma Barranquero wrote:

> On the trunk it's already fixed:
>
>   ;; A dummy process to keep comint happy. It will never get any input
>   (unless (comint-check-proc (current-buffer))
>     ;; Was cat, but on non-Unix platforms that might not exist, so
>     ;; use hexl instead, which is part of the Emacs distribution.
>     (condition-case nil
>         (start-process "ielm" (current-buffer) "hexl")
>       (file-error (start-process "ielm" (current-buffer) "cat")))
>     (process-kill-without-query (ielm-process))
>     (goto-char (point-max))


If hexl is distributed with Emacs, how could start-process signal a file-error?

And if it doess, why is cat considered a viable fallback?

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