what does export do?
Kenneth Porter
shiva at sewingwitch.com
Fri May 20 22:11:57 UTC 2005
--On Saturday, May 21, 2005 1:08 AM +0300 Markku Kolkka <markkuk at tuubi.net>
wrote:
> in Windows a new process gets a copy of the globally set system and user
> environment variables.
That's not my experience. I routinely spawn processes from my editor (an
Emacs clone) and those processes get their environment from the editor, not
from its parent, the Windows desktop shell. The environment seen in the
System object is just what the desktop process loads when it starts. The
desktop process is similar to the init process in Linux, the ancestor of
all processes.
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