Stefan Monnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In my view, the point of executable-find is to figure out whether there is > a command that we can run. If it tells us "I found /ssh:foo/bar/baz", but > then call-process fails because it doesn't work through Tramp, I think it's > a problem.
Tramp does not consider `exec-path' (it uses `tramp-remote-path' instead of). The reason is that `exec-path' would be ambiguous for Tramp - it is needed to find local executables (say "ssh") and remote ones. I agree with Stefan that, as long as `file-executable-p' returns meaningful values for remote files, there must be a meaning for `exec-path', `executable-find' and `start-process' as well in the remote case. For `call-process' this has been done already, although I don't understand why a new function (`process-file') was needed. Otherwise the problem mentioned by Stefan wouldn't exist. > Stefan Best regards, Michael. _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
