Re: How can I preserve TMPDIR environment in screen?

2017-07-16 Thread Jean Louis
Hello Mark, Thank you much, that solves it for me. I will use (setenv in Emacs. Jean On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 09:50:49PM +0100, Mark Diekhans wrote: > > It's not screen, it's the kernel because screen is sgid, > for security reasons > > You can have your .emacs reset TMPDIR or have a wrapper sc

Re: How can I preserve TMPDIR environment in screen?

2017-07-16 Thread Mark Diekhans
It's not screen, it's the kernel because screen is sgid, for security reasons You can have your .emacs reset TMPDIR or have a wrapper script that does this. Jean Louis writes: > Hello, > > I am using screen in following peculiar manner, down below. > > And I am trying to test it to change the

How can I preserve TMPDIR environment in screen?

2017-07-16 Thread Jean Louis
Hello, I am using screen in following peculiar manner, down below. And I am trying to test it to change the TMPDIR variable. $ env SOMETHING=OK TMPDIR=/var/tmp/ screen -l -S emacs -D -m -- emacs So that above does not work, the TMPDIR is not preserved. I can then test it in Emacs with (getenv "