From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#13054: Assume POSIX 1003.1-1988 or later for execve. 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In-Reply-To: <50BBA9D6.4010605@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Sun, 02 Dec 2012 11:19:50 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2.90 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:67807 Archived-At: Paul Eggert 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. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."