cgd@pa.dec.com (Chris G. Demetriou) writes:

>Currently, the only thing that the kernel knows about environment
>variables (or at least "most of the kernel," i'm not going to say that
>i've looked in all of the machine-dependent nooks and crannies) is
>that: [how to copy the environment on exec(2)]

I'm aware of that.  I'm not even sure if it would be a good idea
to let users override this sort of system policy by merely changing
an environment variable.

On the other hand, a process' enviroment includes more then what
environ points to.  E.g. file descriptors and signal settings.

I'm just trying to push this idea to its (reasonable) limits.
-- 
Christoph Badura

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