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Re: list-process strange error


From: Lennart Borgman
Subject: Re: list-process strange error
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 11:25:04 +0200

On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Lennart Borgman
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 8:25 AM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> From: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>
>>> Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 01:14:43 +0200
>>>
>>> I just got this very strange error when trying to do "M-x list-processes":
>>>
>>> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument char-or-string-p
>>> ("c:/Perl/site/bin/perly_sense.pl" "flymake_file"
>>> "--file=bug495770-heredoc_demo_flymake.pl"))
>>>   list-processes(nil)
>>>   call-interactively(list-processes t nil)
>>>   execute-extended-command(nil)
>>>   call-interactively(execute-extended-command nil nil)
>>>
>>> Anyone has any idea what this could be?
>>
>> Well, it seems Emacs expects a string, but gets a list of strings.
>
>
> Yes, you are right. I think the strange data comes from my attempt to
> tame PerlySense to work on w32.
>
> I happened to call (via flymake) start-process with bad data. I am
> surprised that these entered into the data structures of list-process
> and stayed there. There must be a bug there on w32.
>
> What I did was esssentially that I made the argument PROGRAM-ARGS of
> start-process into a list.


Not the whole PROGRAM-ARGS of course, but the tail of it was made a
list of a list.




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