Subject: Re: bug#21281: 25.0.50.1 (getenv "HOSTNAME") fails

From: Andreas Röhler <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 12:55:27 +0200

Am 17.08.2015 um 11:58 schrieb Andreas Schwab:
> Andreas Röhler <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> (getenv "HOSTNAME") returns nil at
> Which means that the parent process did not export this variable to
> Emacs.  Why do you think this is a bug?
>
> Andreas.
>

Because $HOSTNAME exists in Bash but not in Emacs started from Bash.