Re: getenv behavior or bug

[Thierry Volpiatto]

Harald Hanche-Olsen <address@hidden> writes:

> [Thierry Volpiatto <address@hidden> (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.
Thanks for answer,
So what's the environment variables emacs set on startup?

>> 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

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