Damjan Jovanovic wrote:
The environment variable:
* Must not be inherited by child processes
* Ideally, should not be seen by Java apps
AFAIK Java has no API to unset environment variables.
It is possible to manipulate the environment passed to
sub-processes though. However, the spec is clear on the point
that :-
"environment variables which are not modified by Java code will have
an unmodified native representation in the subprocess."
I wonder if it might make sense to change this, so that some kind
of default filtering could be applied? I don't know if it warrants a new API
to do this, but maybe a system property could define a list of environment
variables that are not passed to child processes. And this could be used
in the desktop launcher scripts.
- Michael.
