From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs-repository-version on MS-Windows Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 05:40:09 +0200 Message-ID: <83lhnberty.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83vbmii0ud.fsf@gnu.org> <5465D212.20604@gmx.at> <83lhndj2b3.fsf@gnu.org> <83oas8dxmm.fsf@gnu.org> <3isihk87gt.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416109248 20678 80.91.229.3 (16 Nov 2014 03:40:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 03:40:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 16 04:40:41 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xpqhb-0003zH-Os for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 04:40:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42675 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xpqhb-0003L7-Dw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Nov 2014 22:40:39 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47965) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XpqhS-0003L1-3z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Nov 2014 22:40:35 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XpqhM-0004n6-4z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Nov 2014 22:40:30 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout26.012.net.il ([80.179.55.182]:50506) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XpqhL-0004k0-TO; Sat, 15 Nov 2014 22:40:24 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout26.012.net.il by mtaout26.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NF400F004H1RX00@mtaout26.012.net.il>; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 05:38:48 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout26.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NF4007NL4SOIW70@mtaout26.012.net.il>; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 05:38:48 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <3isihk87gt.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.182 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:177270 Archived-At: > From: Glenn Morris > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 16:44:18 -0500 > > Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > When we invoke subprocesses from temacs, we do that with an empty > > process-environment (it doesn't get set when we are dumping). So the > > subprocess gets an almost empty environment: not even PATH is there. > > Not sure if this can cause trouble, but it surely is worth keeping in > > mind. > > The bzr version of this intentionally avoided calling external executables. Which was a good thing. > (Apparently not possible with git.) If there is, we should do that instead.