[comp.emacs.xemacs] Re: M-x shell fails under Windows Vista

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Aidan Kehoe writes:

 > I’ve made a log of all the file accesses that installed XEmacs makes on a
 > -vanilla start available here: 
 > 
 > http://www.parhasard.net/xemacs/filemon-xemacs-startup-20070420.log.gz

Did you observe 11 requests for media?

If not, and you don't have an e: drive, maybe it would be possible to
alias e: to a removable media device, remove the media, and see if you
can correlate accesses with Windows bitching.  (ISTR from the Win2k
fiasco that if you don't have a drive at all, Windows won't complain.
It's only for a drive with removable media, and the file doesn't exist
on that medium, that the complaint pops up.)

This suggests a possible workaround for Sean: rename the offending
device.

BTW, I gather that your opinion is that since help looks in DOC for
source file names, your patch has nothing to do with this?  (Just to
confirm, since you're the expert.)