This is an automatic notification regarding your bug report which was filed against the emacs package: #2259: 23.0.90; PATCH: getenv mistakenly passes a frame to getenv_internal, when it should instead pass a CONS It has been closed by Juanma Barranquero . Their explanation is attached below along with your original report. If this explanation is unsatisfactory and you have not received a better one in a separate message then please contact Juanma Barranquero by replying to this email. -- 2259: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=2259 Emacs Bug Tracking System Contact help-debbugs@gnu.org with problems