Re: reading environment variables

[Barry Margolin]

In article <9q1w8znwho.fsf@aquin.mat.univie.ac.at>,
 Martin Rubey <axiomize@yahoo.de> wrote:

> Dear gnu emacs gurus,
> 
> I'm trying to get hold of an environment variable a process sets that I'm
> starting with make-comint.
> 
> I know of getenv, but that doesn't seem to do the right thing: as far as I can
> see it only knows about variables that affect emacs, rather than a given
> process.
> 
> Unfortunately, the value of this variable decides how emacs will communicate
> with the subprocess, therefore I cannot really ask the process about the
> value...  Well, maybe I can somehow, but I'm hoping for an easy way.

I don't think there's any general mechanism to look up variables in 
another process's environment.  This is a limitation in most OSes, not 
anything particular to Emacs.

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
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