changeset 2432:17a84e60603b

New macros NULL_DEVICE and EXEC_SUFFIXES, to give the name of the equivalent of /dev/null, and the suffixes used by executable files. This is simple, and helps people porting Emacs to other operating systems. * process.h (NULL_DEVICE): Give this a default value. * process.c (Fstart_process): Pass EXEC_SUFFIXES to openp. (Fprocess_send_eof): Use NULL_DEVICE instead of "/dev/null". * callproc.c (Fcall_process): Pass EXEC_SUFFIXES to openp. Use NULL_DEVICE instead of "/dev/null".

--- a/src/callproc.c	Tue Mar 30 22:21:03 1993 +0000
+++ b/src/callproc.c	Tue Mar 30 23:05:56 1993 +0000
@@ -151,11 +151,7 @@
       CHECK_STRING (infile, 1);
     }
   else
-#ifdef VMS
-    infile = build_string ("NLA0:");
-#else
-    infile = build_string ("/dev/null");
-#endif /* not VMS */
+    infile = build_string (NULL_DEVICE);
 
   if (nargs >= 3)
     {
@@ -220,7 +216,7 @@
       report_file_error ("Opening process input file", Fcons (infile, Qnil));
     }
   /* Search for program; barf if not found.  */
-  openp (Vexec_path, args[0], "", &path, 1);
+  openp (Vexec_path, args[0], EXEC_SUFFIXES, &path, 1);
   if (NILP (path))
     {
       close (filefd);
@@ -229,7 +225,7 @@
   new_argv[0] = XSTRING (path)->data;
 
   if (XTYPE (buffer) == Lisp_Int)
-    fd[1] = open ("/dev/null", O_WRONLY), fd[0] = -1;
+    fd[1] = open (NULL_DEVICE, O_WRONLY), fd[0] = -1;
   else
     {
       pipe (fd);

--- a/src/process.c	Tue Mar 30 22:21:03 1993 +0000
+++ b/src/process.c	Tue Mar 30 23:05:56 1993 +0000
@@ -1034,7 +1034,7 @@
   if (new_argv[0][0] != '/')
     {
       tem = Qnil;
-      openp (Vexec_path, program, "", &tem, 1);
+      openp (Vexec_path, program, EXEC_SUFFIXES, &tem, 1);
       if (NILP (tem))
 	report_file_error ("Searching for program", Fcons (program, Qnil));
       new_argv[0] = XSTRING (tem)->data;
@@ -2597,7 +2597,7 @@
   else
     {
       close (XPROCESS (proc)->outfd);
-      XFASTINT (XPROCESS (proc)->outfd) = open ("/dev/null", O_WRONLY);
+      XFASTINT (XPROCESS (proc)->outfd) = open (NULL_DEVICE, O_WRONLY);
     }
 #endif /* VMS */
 #endif /* did not do TOICREMOTE */

--- a/src/process.h	Tue Mar 30 22:21:03 1993 +0000
+++ b/src/process.h	Tue Mar 30 23:05:56 1993 +0000
@@ -91,3 +91,14 @@
    this is exit code of synchronous subprocess.  */
 extern int synch_process_retcode;
 
+/* The name of the file open to get a null file, or a data sink.
+   VMS, MS-DOS, and OS/2 redefine this.  */
+#ifndef NULL_DEVICE
+#define NULL_DEVICE "/dev/null"
+#endif
+
+/* A string listing the possible suffixes used for executable files,
+   separated by colons.  VMS, MS-DOS, and OS/2 redefine this.  */
+#ifndef EXEC_SUFFIXES
+#define EXEC_SUFFIXES ""
+#endif