X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:52:49 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [1.7] Problem - emacs fails to get shell-command output Message-ID: <20081215135249.GV32197@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4941587D.5070109@cornell.edu> <17393e3e0812111130n3dda8d05n8465481c68b97596@mail.gmail.com> <49457F56.1040508@cornell.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <49457F56.1040508@cornell.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Dec 14 16:49, Ken Brown wrote: > On 12/11/2008 2:30 PM, Matt Wozniski wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Ken Brown wrote: >>> One other thing I've noticed, which I think is unrelated, is that there >>> is a >>> glitch in directory listing in emacs under cygwin 1.7: If you try to >>> list a >>> directory with control-x d, very often the directory listing makes it >>> look >>> like the directory is empty when it isn't. Typing "g" (to ask emacs to >>> redisplay the directory) usually results in a correct listing. >>> [...] >> With no knowledge of cygwin's internals, I'd much sooner guess the >> changes to the pipe code... > > I should have just reported the symptom instead of trying to guess the > cause: Emacs runs the shell command "ls -al" and thinks there's no output. > Here's a second example. I used emacs's "ediff" function to compare two > buffers, and it reported (incorrectly) that there were no differences. So > it seems that emacs called on the shell to run "diff" but didn't get the > output. Any chance to create a testcase which reproduces this behaviour without involving emacs? Emacs is hell of a testcase which I won't even touch with gloves... Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/