Re: Any progress on "Fork issues ith long command lines and long $PATH"?

[Richard Heintze <sieg_heintze@yahoo.com>]

Thanks. Here is the missing link:
https://cygwin.com/ml/2011-02/msg00416.html .

Wow! that is link very old. I hope that means that someone has a fix!

Anyway, I'm getting very similar symptoms on cygwin64 with windows 10 with FSF emacs 23.2, 24.2& 24.5. I don't have this problem on cygwin32 and windows 8.1.

I also do not get this problem with Cygwin emacs-w32 on windows 10 with cygwin64 (strangely enough).

Unfortunately, the following file name (for example) works with fsf emacs and not Cygwin emacs-w32:

$USERPROFILE/Documents/hello.txt

Even some bash commands accept this but emacs-w32 does not.

I use these environment variables extensively to facilitate moving between different windows logins.

Thanks
Siegfrie



On Saturday, January 16, 2016 12:10 PM, Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu> wrote:



On 1/16/2016 2:38 PM, Richard Heintze wrote:
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> On Friday, January 15, 2016 5:35 PM, Richard Heintze <sieg_heintze@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> regarding: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-02/msg00416.html
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> I'm getting similar errors (see link below) but only on Windows 10 with Cygwin 64.

You seem to have omitted the link.

> When I use Cygwin emacs instead of FSF emacs I do not get this error on Windows 10.
> Unfortunately, Cygwin emacs does not allow me to make extensive use of my my environment variables embedded in file path/names like the windows version of FSF emacs does. This is a major problem!

What do you mean by "environment variables embedded in file path/names"?


> I do not get this error with windows 8 and Cygwin32.
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> Do you think installing cygwin32 on Windows 10 would solve the problem? If it does not solve the problem, can I uninstalling cygwin32 by just deleting c\:Cygwin?
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> Has this been reported as a bug? Has any progress been made on fixing it?

I can't make much sense out of what you wrote, but I'm responding as 
Cygwin's emacs maintainer.  Is there some emacs problem I can help you 
with?  If so, please make a complete, self-contained report.

Ken


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