GNU bug report logs - #21281
25.0.50.1 (getenv "HOSTNAME") fails

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de>

Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 09:00:03 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: notabug

Found in version 25.0.50.1

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #20 received at 21281 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> suse.de>
Cc: 21281 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21281: 25.0.50.1 (getenv "HOSTNAME") fails
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 12:55:27 +0200

Am 17.08.2015 um 11:58 schrieb Andreas Schwab:
> Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de> 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.
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