Re: [PATCH] Add facility to collect stderr of async subprocess

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Daiki Ueno <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 16:37:08 +0900
> 
> >> In any case, supporting stderr could be a starting point, as it seems to
> >> be a long-standing request:
> >> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2004-04/msg01051.html
> >> and it wouldn't involve a portability issue.
> >
> > Redirecting the child's stderr is already supported on Windows, so
> > this is only a matter of having the higher layers DTRT.
> 
> So, let's start with small (but common) things.  The attached patch adds
> a new keyword `:stderr' to `make-process'.  The argument can be either a
> buffer or a (newly introduced) pipe process.

Do you expect this to work on Windows?  If so, then there's at least
some part of "having higher layers DTRT" I failed to adequately
explain ;-)

Redirection of stderr does indeed work on the lowest level of creating
subprocesses on MS-Windows, but we don't expect to read from a pipe
connected to child's stderr, and thus the 'pselect' emulation watches
only one file handle per sub-process.  This needs to be expanded.

In addition, this:

>   (let ((stderr (make-pipe-process :name "stderr")))
>     (make-process :name "test"
>                   :buffer (current-buffer)
>                   :command (list (expand-file-name "./test.sh"))
>                   :stderr stderr)
>     (set-process-filter stderr ...))

introduces a new concept whereby a process object ('stderr' in this
case) can be passed to another subprocess, which AFAIK was not
possible until now, at least not on MS-Windows.

Volunteers are welcome to work on this, of course.