bug#13344: 24.3.50; Gnus error c:/dev/fd/0

[Daiki Ueno]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

>> Looks like this comes from this snippet in epg.el:epg--start:
>>
>>     ;; Set GPG_TTY and TERM for pinentry-curses.  Note that we can't
>>     ;; use `terminal-name' here to get the real pty name for the child
>>     ;; process, though /dev/fd/0" is not portable.
>>     (with-temp-buffer
>>       (when (= (call-process "tty" "/dev/fd/0" t) 0)
>>      (delete-backward-char 1)
>>      (setq terminal-name (buffer-string))))
>>
>> Obviously, this will never work on Windows.
>
> So perhaps that code should just be disabled for Windows?        

Oops.  Though I tend to revert the previous patch, I've just added error
check around call-process for now.  Sorry for the inconvenience.

Regards,
-- 
Daiki Ueno