GNU bug report logs - #421
problems with async "shell-command" and gnome-open

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I straced gnome-open and it ends with a clone statement, so I suppose
emacs gets confused by the original process dying.

Then I tried a wrapper script like this:

#!/bin/sh
strace -o /tmp/gnome-open-strace gnome-open $1 


If I use this wrapper rather than gnome-open directly, the problem goes
away. Removing strace from the wrapper makes the problem come back.




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Subject: problems with async "shell-command" and gnome-open
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Hi.

gnome-open does nothing when run as asynchronous "shell-command".

M-! gnome-open /usr/share/pixmaps/backgrounds/gnome/translucent/tentacles=
.svg &

it just ends without error but also without opening the file.  It however=
 works when doing the
same without the & but then emacs blocks and waits for gnome-open (or rat=
her the program it
called) to end.  The same applies to dired's dired-do-shell-command (boun=
d to ! in a dired buffer)
where this problem is also much more annoying.  I'm not sure if its an em=
acs bug or gnome-open bug
but so far i only had problems with it in emacs thats why i write to this=
 mailinglist first.
Would be nice to hear about a fix or workaround.

Regards,
Stephan