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Re: Janitorial issues: Man-getpage-in-background
From: |
Kai Großjohann |
Subject: |
Re: Janitorial issues: Man-getpage-in-background |
Date: |
Wed, 12 Mar 2003 12:57:50 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.090016 (Oort Gnus v0.16) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
"Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/address@hidden> writes:
>> 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.
Yes, maybe the discussion was about whether the `setenv' Lisp function
should call the `setenv(2)' C function.
If Man-getpage-in-background ever needs to set $TZ, we would be in
trouble...
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A preposition is not a good thing to end a sentence with.
Re: Janitorial issues: Man-getpage-in-background, Stefan Monnier, 2003/03/10