Where do you think process initialization gets the variable names and values?

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Subject: Re: Assembler access to USS functions

On Thu, 5 Oct 2023 02:37:57 +0000, Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote:

>The shell creates the environment variables.

No. The environment variable array is created by process initialization. The 
shell and programs can modify the array. I believe sub-shells in the same 
process use the same array.

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