From: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>
To: Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@math.ntnu.no>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: getenv behavior or bug
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 19:03:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r5asox3y.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110228.173953.1520547454256399731.hanche@math.ntnu.no> (Harald Hanche-Olsen's message of "Mon, 28 Feb 2011 17:39:53 +0100 (CET)")
Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@math.ntnu.no> writes:
> [Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com> (2011-02-28 16:25:56 UTC)]
>
>> (getenv "HOSTNAME") returns nil both on 23 and 24 branch, is this
>> normal or a bug?
>
> Emacs doesn't try to set this environment variable if it is not
> already set. So presumably whatever process you use to start your
> emacs from doesn't have it.
Thanks for answer,
So what's the environment variables emacs set on startup?
>> In M-x shell, echo $HOSTNAME returns what expected, idem for uname -n.
>
> I guess that is done somewhere in your shell startup files, or maybe
> the global one. M-x shell runs a login shell after all.
>
> - Harald
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-28 18:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-28 16:25 getenv behavior or bug Thierry Volpiatto
2011-02-28 16:38 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-02-28 16:39 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2011-02-28 18:03 ` Thierry Volpiatto [this message]
2011-02-28 18:33 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2011-02-28 22:18 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-03-01 19:40 ` Thierry Volpiatto
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