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Re: setenv
From: |
Andreas Schwab |
Subject: |
Re: setenv |
Date: |
20 Sep 2001 17:40:24 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.090003 (Oort Gnus v0.03) Emacs/21.0.106 |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:
|> On 20 Sep 2001, Andreas Schwab wrote:
|>
|> > |> So if Emacs provides a primitive that calls putenv internally, Lisp
|> > |> programs will be able to modify Emacs's own environment.
|> >
|> > I don't think that would be needed, because environ is not used except for
|> > initializing process-environment and for fiddling with the time zone.
|>
|> It is used for a few other things, such as looking for executable files
|> along PATH.
No, all callers of child_setup already use exec-path to make the program
name absolute so that execvp never searches PATH.
Andreas.
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