Fossil certainly will spawn external programs if you:

1) start a commit w/o a command-line commit message

2) run a did with an external diff-command configured.

, maybe others.
On Jun 7, 2014 12:00 PM, "Ron Wilson" <ronw.m...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 11:52 AM, Stephan Beal <sgb...@googlemail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 5:18 PM, Will Parsons <varro@nodomain.invalid>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Or you should be able to simply set the environment variable:
>>>
>>> $ USER=philip_bennefall
>>>
>>> and then you don't need to worry about the -A or --user options.
>>>
>>
>> That would work, but note that many programs use $USER to create strings
>> (paths) and such, so reassigning it is generally not a good idea. However...
>>
>> export FOSSIL_USER=philip_bennefall
>>
>> should do the trick without endangering any other apps.
>>
>
> Also:
>
> env USER= philip_bennefall fossil command options etc
>
> Will run fossil will that value of USER but not affect other things
> (unless fossil invokes them, but fossil doesn't do that)
>
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