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Re: setenv


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: setenv
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 19:05:22 +0200 (IST)

On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, I wrote:

> On 20 Sep 2001, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> 
> > No, all callers of child_setup already use exec-path to make the program
> > name absolute so that execvp never searches PATH.
> 
> I wasn't talking about Emacs sources, I was talking about C library 
> functions.  Some of them look at Emacs's own environment.

In addition, some of the Emacs sources also use the original environment
of the Emacs process.  Grep the sources for `getenv' (as opposed to 
`egetenv'), to find those.



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