2013/8/8 Norbert Preining <[email protected]>: > Once more: It seems that the os.setenv function does not have an > effect on the running process on Windows, only on child process?
Is that really Windows-specific? Thinking in Lua terms, environment variables are like Lua upvalues, they belong one level higher up, and they must be read-only, otherwise a running process can queer the pitch for other processes started in the same environment.
