It seems to me that the Runtime.exec() approach is not guaranteed to
find the actual value of the environment variable, only some "default"
value of that variable. Jruby could have been launched in a shell
with modified environment variables.

Just a thought. Maybe its a footnote in the doc.


Neil


> Message: 2
> Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 09:35:25 -0600
> From: Charles O Nutter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Jruby-devel] Suggestion for an ENV implementation
> Reply-To: [email protected]
> 
> I agree with the reflective bit; Tom and I discussed this yesterday as
> an ugly but warranted solution for 1.5ers who have access to the new
> getenv stuff.
> 
> I also agree that system property namespace and ENV namespace should
> be kept separate.
> 
> Tom's reply covered the rest of our discussion.
> 
> - Charlie





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