Mention that processes start in default-directory (Bug#18515)

* doc/lispref/processes.texi (Synchronous Processes):
(Asynchronous Processes):
* lisp/subr.el (start-process):
* src/callproc.c (call-process): Mention that the subprocess starts in
`default-directory' when local, suggest `start-file-process' and
`process-file' otherwise.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/callproc.c b/src/callproc.c
index 6d69e13757f..a781e47b171 100644
--- a/src/callproc.c
+++ b/src/callproc.c
@@ -240,6 +240,10 @@ Otherwise it waits for PROGRAM to terminate
 and returns a numeric exit status or a signal description string.
 If you quit, the process is killed with SIGINT, or SIGKILL if you quit again.
 
+The process runs in `default-directory' if that is local (as
+determined by `unhandled-file-name-directory'), or "~" otherwise.  If
+you want to run a process in a remote directory use `process-file'.
+
 usage: (call-process PROGRAM &optional INFILE DESTINATION DISPLAY &rest ARGS)  */)
   (ptrdiff_t nargs, Lisp_Object *args)
 {