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bug#13054: Assume POSIX 1003.1-1988 or later for execve.


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: bug#13054: Assume POSIX 1003.1-1988 or later for execve.
Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2012 22:10:16 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2.90 (gnu/linux)

Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes:

> Perhaps the author of that part of Emacs simply
> didn't know about execve.  That would explain things.

I think the original author just wanted child_setup to search PATH.  The
change logs don't give any indication whether that was ever necessary.

Andreas.

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