From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 13054-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13054: Assume POSIX 1003.1-1988 or later for execve.
Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2012 22:10:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2hao4gnyf.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50BBA9D6.4010605@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Sun, 02 Dec 2012 11:19:50 -0800")
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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-02 21:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-02 4:37 bug#13054: Assume POSIX 1003.1-1988 or later for execve Paul Eggert
2012-12-02 8:27 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-12-02 18:17 ` Paul Eggert
2012-12-02 18:48 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-12-02 19:19 ` Paul Eggert
2012-12-02 21:10 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2012-12-02 17:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
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