On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 11:49:39AM -0500, Nathan Dorfman wrote:
> $ TERM=xterm; export TERM
> $ echo $TERM
> xterm
> $ set -E
> No entry for terminal type "xterm-color";
> using dumb terminal settings.
> $

Looking over the sh/libedit source, it seems to me that rather than 
changing its own environment, the shell maintains its own list of
'exported' variables to place in the environment of new processes...

libedit, however, calls getenv("TERM") in the original process,
which gives it back the original (broken) value.

Does anyone have any thoughts/comments on this? The current behavior
seems rather broken to me, does anyone disagree?

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