On Sat, Feb 6, 2016 at 1:31 PM, Colin Booth <cathexis_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Due to the mechanism of exec, emptyenv doesn't modify it's
> environment, it modifies the environment that the next command
> receives. Because of this, emptyenv has a $PATH that it attempts to
> find foreground on. Foreground however does not receive a path and so
> falls back to using the default.
>
Got it. That was the conjecture I had come up with, I am very pleased to
have it confirmed. Thank you!
Regards,
Brett
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Brett Neumeier (bneumeier_at_gmail.com)
Received on Sat Feb 06 2016 - 19:35:45 UTC