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From: Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@math.ntnu.no>
To: thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: getenv behavior or bug
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 17:39:53 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110228.173953.1520547454256399731.hanche@math.ntnu.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vd04p1m3.fsf@gmail.com>

[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.

> 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



  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-02-28 16:39 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 [this message]
2011-02-28 18:03   ` Thierry Volpiatto
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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