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From: | Pascal Quesseveur |
Subject: | Re: apply start-process fails because of invalid current directory |
Date: | Wed, 31 Jul 2013 17:25:18 +0200 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (windows-nt) |
>"SM" == Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes: SM> That's a common problem: start-process runs an external process SM> and for that it needs to decide what the "current working SM> directory" of that process should be. Elisp says that this SM> should be the directory specified by `default-directory'. When problem occured I looked at default-directory and if I'm not mistaken it was not set to y:/ SM> If your process doesn't use the current directory, then the SM> Elisp code that runs it should explicitly rebind SM> `default-directory' to some "safe" choice SM> (e.g. (expand-file-name "~/")) around the call to start-process. Is that not what is supposed to do start-process? -- Pascal Quesseveur pascal.quesseveur@free.fr
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