From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Janitorial issues: Man-getpage-in-background Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 12:57:50 +0100 Organization: University of Duisburg, Germany Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <841y1chk5d.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> References: <84of4qdqxt.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <3E67A82B.5090008@ihs.com> <8465qvoyfk.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <200303111825.h2BIPfNZ011881@rum.cs.yale.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1047471890 29248 80.91.224.249 (12 Mar 2003 12:24:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 12:24:50 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 12 13:24:49 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18t5Ht-0007bb-00 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 13:24:49 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18t5f7-0005Uf-00 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 13:48:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18t5HB-0005JG-05 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 07:24:05 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18t5EP-0004D5-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 07:21:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18t5Ch-0003iC-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 07:19:27 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18t4uq-0000Bk-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 07:01:01 -0500 Original-Received: from root by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18t4u8-000687-00 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 13:00:16 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18t4rJ-0005wT-00 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 12:57:21 +0100 Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.090016 (Oort Gnus v0.16) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:26YR3XLKyFwCok3JeJTKYsE5T/Y= X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:12301 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:12301 "Stefan Monnier" 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... -- A preposition is not a good thing to end a sentence with.