Re: setenv

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
> From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
> 
> eliz@is.elta.co.il (Eli Zaretskii) writes:
> > > I wasn't talking about Emacs sources, I was talking about C library 
> > > functions.  Some of them look at Emacs's own environment.
> 
> Which ones?

I don't remember all of them, but time-related functions come to
mind.

> > In addition, some of the Emacs sources also use the original environment
> > of the Emacs process.  Grep the sources for `getenv' (as opposed to 
> > `egetenv'), to find those.
> 
> These probably ought to be fixed then

Perhaps so, unless it turns out that this is done on purpose.