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Re: [Bug] M-x setenv PID + bash -> M-x shell breaks
- To: Andrew Innes <andrewi at harlequin dot co dot uk>
- Subject: Re: [Bug] M-x setenv PID + bash -> M-x shell breaks
- From: Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs dot mu dot OZ dot AU>
- Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 01:30:59 +1100
- Cc: stodghil at cs dot cornell dot edu, ntemacs-users at cs dot washington dot edu, gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- References: <mlsorrvccr.fsf@mario.cs.cornell.edu> <199712181232.MAA24367@shirow.long.harlequin.co.uk>
On 18-Dec-1997, Andrew Innes <andrewi@harlequin.co.uk> wrote:
> On 17 Dec 1997 17:22:44 -0500, Paul Stodghill <stodghil@CS.Cornell.EDU> said:
> >Setting the environment variable "PID" causes shell commands to break when
> >bash is the shell that emacs invokes.
...
> >Why this happens, I have no idea. I'm not even sure if its an emacs or bash
> >bug...
>
> It is presumably a bug in bash. Emacs doesn't care about PID.
I think it is more likely to be a bug in gnu-win32 (i.e. cygwin.dll
and/or libcygwin.a), which does care about PID.
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