From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: bo.johansson@lsn.se, 10980@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#10980: GNU bugs information: logs for bug#10980
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 22:54:25 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAM-tV-899k6Dm5+mmgj0LTv8d+YwCcYHzAhCXVkW0GuZkFPepA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83k2hi54ml.fsf@gnu.org>
On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 10:39 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>
>> Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 17:03:21 -0400
>> Cc: 10980@debbugs.gnu.org, bo.johansson@lsn.se
>>
>> I feel like I'm missing some important point here. If these
>> environment variables won't affect subprocess environments, why set
>> them at all?
>
> Because Emacs itself needs them. They must be in Emacs's environment,
> but don't have to be in Vprocess_environment.
What does it need them for? Just because Emacs consults the values
from its environment? Is there some reason not to use just plain old
global variables?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-22 2:54 UTC|newest]
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[not found] ` <handler.s.R.14653322689344.info.0@debbugs.gnu.org>
2016-06-08 3:54 ` bug#10980: GNU bugs information: logs for bug#10980 Noam Postavsky
2016-06-08 16:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-06-21 0:23 ` Noam Postavsky
2016-06-21 13:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-06-21 21:03 ` Noam Postavsky
2016-06-22 2:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-06-22 2:54 ` Noam Postavsky [this message]
2016-06-22 14:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-06-29 13:12 ` Noam Postavsky
2016-06-29 15:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-06-29 15:26 ` Noam Postavsky
2016-06-29 15:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-06-29 23:02 ` Noam Postavsky
2016-07-09 10:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-18 21:52 ` Noam Postavsky
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