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: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 22:20:17 +0200 Message-ID: <83oas8dxmm.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83vbmii0ud.fsf@gnu.org> <5465D212.20604@gmx.at> <83lhndj2b3.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416082878 9182 80.91.229.3 (15 Nov 2014 20:21:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 20:21:18 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 15 21:21:11 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 1XpjqH-0002aO-1H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Nov 2014 21:21:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41887 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XpjqG-0004w6-IS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Nov 2014 15:21:08 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53912) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xpjpo-0004vU-Pk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Nov 2014 15:20:48 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xpjph-0005r5-7f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Nov 2014 15:20:40 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout28.012.net.il ([80.179.55.184]:52525) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xpjpg-0005qo-MM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Nov 2014 15:20:33 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout28.012.net.il by mtaout28.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NF300500JSHCO00@mtaout28.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Nov 2014 22:17:53 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout28.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NF30053TKDTF220@mtaout28.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Nov 2014 22:17:53 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <83lhndj2b3.fsf@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: 80.179.55.184 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:177247 Archived-At: JFYI, let me for the record publish the one finding from digging into this, that is relevant to all platforms, not only Windows. 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.