bug#81517: 31.0.90; executable-find on remote buffer fails

Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> writes:

Hi Eli,

>> If this commit is merged to Emacs31, many Windows users are happy.
>
> I imagine those users to be less happy if that commit, which is far
> from trivial, causes regressions elsewhere.
>
> Being very close to a release, this is not a simple obvious decision
> to make, it involves risks that need to be assessed.  By contrast, the
> offending commit was with us for more than a year, with no complaints
> from the users of what is now the Emacs 31 pretest.

As a compromise, we might backport only the fix in executable-find (a
one-liner), and backport the other changes to Emacs 31.2. It looks
simple enough (I know, famous last words ...).

Best regards, Michael.