On 9/30/14, 9:52 AM, Henk Langeveld wrote:
> In my view, the environment (the structure pointed to by envp**) and the
> shell's environment variables are two
> different things.
>
> Any entries that are valid variable names should be imported as environment
> variables once the process starts.
> Any remaining entries should be preserved in the environment structure.
>
> On a subsequent exec, all environment variables should be merged into the
> envp** structure.
>
> That way, ksh will not complain about junk in its own namespace, while
> still preserving the environment
> for subsequent processes.
This is what bash does.
Chet
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