On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Foo Lim wrote:
> Sorry, I can't help you any more than that, I'm afraid. Child processes
> should inherit the environment from the parent, but can't change the
> environment of the parent, which makes sense when you think about
> programming the UNIX environment.
>
> Anyone else wanna take a stab at this?
I think you're right, Foo. IIRC, the *only* thing shared between parent
and child processes is file descriptors. Everything else is copied, and
changes to the child's environment will not affect the parent.
WARNING: ugly and untested idea. Perhaps your Perl script could rewrite
and re-source the .login or .bashrc or .whatever file?
--nicole twn
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