On 7/7/12 11:39 AM, Jason Vas Dias wrote:
> Next Question :
> - any plans to allow us to export array or associative store
> variables ? ie. represent them in *environ passed to programs
> with an integration with glibc "getenv()" to support this ?
There is already code -- commented out -- to export array variables in
a format that resembles a compound array assignment, and code -- still
commented out -- in bash to understand them. It's not enabled because
the chance for obscure collisions with similarly-formed environment
variables is non-negligible and doesn't have an elegant solution.
Chet
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