Re: list-process strange error

[Lennart Borgman]

On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 8:25 AM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>> From: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>
>> Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 01:14:43 +0200
>>
>> I just got this very strange error when trying to do "M-x list-processes":
>>
>> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument char-or-string-p
>> ("c:/Perl/site/bin/perly_sense.pl" "flymake_file"
>> "--file=bug495770-heredoc_demo_flymake.pl"))
>>   list-processes(nil)
>>   call-interactively(list-processes t nil)
>>   execute-extended-command(nil)
>>   call-interactively(execute-extended-command nil nil)
>>
>> Anyone has any idea what this could be?
>
> Well, it seems Emacs expects a string, but gets a list of strings.


Yes, you are right. I think the strange data comes from my attempt to
tame PerlySense to work on w32.

I happened to call (via flymake) start-process with bad data. I am
surprised that these entered into the data structures of list-process
and stayed there. There must be a bug there on w32.

What I did was esssentially that I made the argument PROGRAM-ARGS of
start-process into a list.