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Re: Properties
- To: jsturm@sigma6.com
- Subject: Re: Properties
- From: Andrew Haley <aph@pasanda.cygnus.co.uk>
- Date: 13 Sep 1999 14:28:15 -0000
- CC: java-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 10:27:58 -0400
> From: Jeff Sturm <jsturm@sigma6.com>
>
> Andrew Haley wrote:
> >
> > > Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 10:15:28 -0400
> > > From: Jeff Sturm <jsturm@sigma6.com>
> > > > Okay, I admit this won't work on the benighted systems where the
> > > > environment really is global.
> > >
> > > Are there really any systems that work that way?
> >
> > Yes, I think so. I'll give you one guess...
>
> Maybe I'm missing the obvious... even MS-DOS copied the environment
> block for each child process.
Perhaps my memory is faulty. I seem to remember that if a child
process set an enviroment variable and exited, the variable was still
set. However, it was a long time ago.
Andrew.