Xref: utzoo comp.emacs:8733 gnu.emacs:3315 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sunybcs!boulder!uswat!jbw From: jbw@zeb.uswest.com (Joe Wells) Newsgroups: comp.emacs,gnu.emacs Subject: Re: how does one getenv a particular process? Message-ID: Date: 21 Jul 90 02:38:23 GMT References: <281@crcaus.cactus.org> Sender: news@uswat.UUCP Organization: U S West Advanced Technologies Lines: 17 In-reply-to: john@crcaus.cactus.org's message of 19 Jul 90 15:00:45 GMT In article <281@crcaus.cactus.org> john@crcaus.cactus.org (John R. Miller) writes: Is there a version of getenv that accepts a process argument in addition to the environment variable? I want to do something like: (setq build-envar (getenv "ENVAR" (get-process "build"))) (getenv "ENVAR") returns the value in emacs' parent shell (or something like that -- anyway, it's not what I need). Not under any version of Unix with which I'm familiar. Support for something similar to this exists in Mach. The problem has to do with how environment variables are implemented. -- Joe Wells