Re: Janitorial issues: Man-getpage-in-background

[Stefan Monnier]

> It seems that setenv does quite a bit of work in addition to consing
> stuff onto process-environment.  I'm not sure it is a good idea to
> skip using setenv.  Wasn't there a discussion about having setenv do
> something additional to frobbing process-environment?  It was some
> moons ago.  I'm not talking about the multibyte issue that was
> recently mentioned.  Hmmm...

You're probably referring to the problem of C libraries that
use envvars and whose functions are called by Emacs.


        Stefan