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Re: setenv

From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: setenv
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 13:41:14 +0200 (IST) 
On 20 Sep 2001, Andreas Schwab wrote:

> AFAIK there is no way to directly
> access the environment of the Emacs process.

I'm not sure what you mean.  If you mean from C, then a call to the C 
library functions setenv or putenv does modify the environment of the 
Emacs process.

So if Emacs provides a primitive that calls putenv internally, Lisp
programs will be able to modify Emacs's own environment.
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