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Re: grep.el bug?
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David Abrahams |
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Re: grep.el bug? |
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Sat, 15 Jan 2005 23:09:57 -0500 |
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David Abrahams wrote:
> I just rebuilt emacs from CVS. On line 541 of grep.el, a change was
> made about a year ago that seems to be breaking grep-find for me.
>
> (let ((null-device nil)) ; see grep
> (grep command-args))))
>
> This always leads to the following backtrace for me:
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
> call-process("find" nil nil nil nil "-print0")
> grep-compute-defaults()
> grep-process-setup()
> compilation-start("find . -type f -not -path \"*/CVS/*\" ...)
> grep("find . -type f -not -path \"*/CVS/*\" -not -name \ ...)
> grep-find("find . -type f -not -path \"*/CVS/*\" -not ...)
> call-interactively(grep-find)
> execute-extended-command(nil)
> call-interactively(execute-extended-command)
>
> As far as I can tell, null-device gets passed as the 5th argument to
> call-process, which expects only strings after its 4th argument. But
> this can't have remained broken for everyone for a whole year, can it?
> So I must be missing something. The comment that directs me to "see
> grep" leaves me completely in the dark.
>
> Clues, anyone?
Here's one clue: I have customized grep-find-command. I believe that if
I hadn't,
(unless grep-find-command
(grep-compute-defaults))
would cause grep-compute-defaults to be called early enough to make the
nil-ness of null-device irrellevant. Hah, yes, that is in fact the case.
The grep function has a slightly more sophisticated check:
(unless (and grep-command
(or (not grep-use-null-device) (eq grep-use-null-device t)))
I don't know exactly what the right fix is, but it seems to me these
tests ought to be encapsulated, or just incorporated into
grep-compute-defaults. Hmm, something like that seems to be there
already. Since I don't know what the original authors of this code were
thinking, I'm having trouble thinking of a change that preserves what's
currently working but doesn't just make more of a mess.
--
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
http://www.boost-consulting.com
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