From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: Emacs <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Configure test for whether localtime caches TZ
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 19:25:29 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CCDFAE9.9090604@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <sdaalurz91.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
On 10/31/2010 2:30 PM, Glenn Morris wrote:
> Ken Brown wrote:
>
>> The configure test for whether localtime caches TZ directly modifies
>> the environment and so (according to POSIX) might produce unreliable
>> results. Wouldn't it be better to use unsetenv, as in the following
>> patch (against the emacs-23 branch):
>
> Seems better, assuming it is portable. Not worth putting in emacs-23
> IMO though, since the current code has been there for decades with no
> (?) reported problems.
It should be more portable than the existing code. I've checked it into
the trunk.
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2010-10-30 18:29 Configure test for whether localtime caches TZ Ken Brown
2010-10-31 18:30 ` Glenn Morris
2010-10-31 23:25 ` Ken Brown [this message]
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