From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stefan Monnier" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Janitorial issues: Man-getpage-in-background Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 13:25:41 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200303111825.h2BIPfNZ011881@rum.cs.yale.edu> References: <84of4qdqxt.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <3E67A82B.5090008@ihs.com> <8465qvoyfk.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1047407540 29283 80.91.224.249 (11 Mar 2003 18:32:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 18:32:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 11 19:32:18 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 18soXy-0007bp-00 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 19:32:18 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18soup-0002cz-00 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 19:55:55 +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 18soUt-0003lv-02 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 13:29:07 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18soT7-0003ID-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 13:27:17 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18soSz-0003DA-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 13:27:12 -0500 Original-Received: from rum.cs.yale.edu ([128.36.229.169]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18soRa-0002Fx-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 13:25:42 -0500 Original-Received: from rum.cs.yale.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rum.cs.yale.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h2BIPfPe011883; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 13:25:41 -0500 Original-Received: (from monnier@localhost) by rum.cs.yale.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id h2BIPfNZ011881; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 13:25:41 -0500 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 Original-To: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) 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:12279 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:12279 > 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. Stefan