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

[Sean Boisen]

Okay, I fired up procmon, started xemacs, filtered out all other processes, and then dumped to the attached CSV file: a quick scan doesn't show any e:/ pathnames, but maybe more knowledgeable eyes can find something here.

Sean

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aidan Kehoe [mailto:kehoea at parhasard.net]
> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 7:26 AM
> To: Stephen J. Turnbull
> Cc: Sean Boisen; xemacs-beta
> Subject: Re: [comp.emacs.xemacs] Re: M-x shell fails under Windows
> Vista
> 
> 
>  Ar an fichiú lá de mí Aibréan, scríobh 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?
> 
> No, and nothing appeared to be unrelated to my system. But then I’m on
> XP,
> not Vista--Sean, if you can run Process Monitor:
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/processmonitor.
> mspx
> and examine what files XEmacs tries to load on starting, then send us a
> list
> of them, that would be really helpful.
> 
>  > 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.
> 
> I have an E: drive, and it’s empty right now.
> 
>  > (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.)
> 
> Unless some of the startup Lisp tries to find the C source of a
> function or
> variable, I can’t see how it could.
> 
> --
> On the quay of the little Black Sea port, where the rescued pair came
> once
> more into contact with civilization, Dobrinton was bitten by a dog
> which was
> assumed to be mad, though it may only have been indiscriminating.
> (Saki)
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