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Re: getenv behavior or bug
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Harald Hanche-Olsen |
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Re: getenv behavior or bug |
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Mon, 28 Feb 2011 17:39:53 +0100 (CET) |
[Thierry Volpiatto <address@hidden> (2011-02-28 16:25:56 UTC)]
> (getenv "HOSTNAME") returns nil both on 23 and 24 branch, is this
> normal or a bug?
Emacs doesn't try to set this environment variable if it is not
already set. So presumably whatever process you use to start your
emacs from doesn't have it.
> In M-x shell, echo $HOSTNAME returns what expected, idem for uname -n.
I guess that is done somewhere in your shell startup files, or maybe
the global one. M-x shell runs a login shell after all.
- Harald