what does export do?

[Matthew Miller]

On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 03:11:57PM -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> 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.

If you're spawning them from the editor, their parent is the editor....

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