Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 11:24:43 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Orlando Andico <orly AT gibson DOT eee DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph>
cc: Michael Bukin <bukinm AT inp DOT nsk DOT su>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: One for the Gurus
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On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Orlando Andico wrote:

> The execXX() functions and spawnXX() functions have versions in which
> you're supposed to pass a pointer to the environment you're giving the
> child. Perhaps DJGPP programs set some environment variable (probably TERM
> or something) that normal DOS programs don't. getenv() returns NULL if no
> variable found, but A LOT of code looks like this:
> 
>   strcpy (term_var, getenv ("TERM"));
> 
> which _would_ cause a SIGSEGV if TERM was not defined.

This is a possibility, but you need to actually locate such a code 
fragment to explain a crash.  Emacs doesn't have such fragment anywhere 
(yes, I've looked).

This also doesn't explain at all why Emacs only crashes when exactly 22 
environment variables are defined.