Mail Archives: cygwin/1997/12/18/06:50:17
On 18-Dec-1997, Andrew Innes <andrewi AT harlequin DOT co DOT uk> wrote:
> On 17 Dec 1997 17:22:44 -0500, Paul Stodghill <stodghil AT CS DOT Cornell DOT EDU> said:
> >Setting the environment variable "PID" causes shell commands to break when
> >bash is the shell that emacs invokes.
....
> >Why this happens, I have no idea. I'm not even sure if its an emacs or bash
> >bug...
>
> It is presumably a bug in bash. Emacs doesn't care about PID.
I think it is more likely to be a bug in gnu-win32 (i.e. cygwin.dll
and/or libcygwin.a), which does care about PID.
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