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From: kamat@UCENG.UC.EDU ("Govind N. Kamat")
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
Subject: problem with call-process
Message-ID: <8909230318.AA16158@uceng.UC.EDU>
Date: 23 Sep 89 03:18:55 GMT
Distribution: gnu
Organization: GNUs Not Usenet
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The function "call-process" does not seem to locate programs in
exec-path correctly.  If my PATH variable is

PATH=~/bin:/bin:/usr/bin

and I happen to have a data file "ls", without execute permission, in
~/bin, then call-process will attempt to execute it, rather than
/bin/ls.  I'm not sure that this is the desired behavior, since the
shell does it right.

This is with version 18.55.

--
Kamat