From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: 6401@debbugs.gnu.org, tim@tenkan.org
Subject: bug#6401:
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:08:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83k46s9gje.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <w7r510vze1.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> Cc: tim@tenkan.org, 6401@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:29:58 -0500
>
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> >> Why does a --with-ns build actually need to set these env-vars for child
> >> processes?
> >> Could they specifically be unset in spawned M-x shells?
> >
> > How will Emacs know that these variables weren't set by the parent
> > shell?
>
> I'm ignorant of all this. What do child processes of Emacs need these
> variables for? Can you give me one example of something I might want to
> run inside an emacs M-x shell buffer that needs to know EMACSDATA? It's
> not set in shells spawned by a GNU/Linux build.
Consider the case when the user sets this in the parent shell. Then a
sub-shell will inherit it, and so will a sub-Emacs.
Don't know if this is the problems with ns, though.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-22 18:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-11 11:53 bug#6401: Failure in loading charset map: JISX0208 Sigve Berge Hofland
2011-05-24 16:30 ` bug#6401: Sigve Berge Hofland
2011-07-02 1:01 ` bug#6401: Glenn Morris
2011-11-21 2:33 ` bug#6401: Tim Daly Jr.
2011-11-21 23:31 ` bug#6401: Glenn Morris
2011-11-22 5:38 ` bug#6401: Eli Zaretskii
2011-11-22 7:49 ` bug#6401: Glenn Morris
2011-11-22 8:36 ` bug#6401: Eli Zaretskii
2011-11-22 17:29 ` bug#6401: Glenn Morris
2011-11-22 17:34 ` bug#6401: Tim Daly Jr.
2011-11-22 17:42 ` bug#6401: Glenn Morris
2011-11-22 22:15 ` bug#6401: Glenn Morris
2012-07-10 1:06 ` bug#6401: Failure in loading charset map: JISX0208 Glenn Morris
2011-11-22 18:08 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2011-11-22 17:32 ` bug#6401: Glenn Morris
2011-11-22 18:09 ` bug#6401: Eli Zaretskii
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