On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 08:22:56AM -0600, Mike McNally wrote:
> > First: Environment is in no way supported by the kernel. It's pure
> > user-space stuff; totally in the shell.
>
> That's not exactly correct, since the "execve" call explicitly supports
> passing of an environment array, and thus the environment is a critical
> part of establishing the process address space for the new program.
Well, yeah, the kernel has to establish the initial memory for the process
and create argc, argv, and envp from passed values. Since their concern
was content, I simplified along that line, since the kernel never mucks
with what's in the environment.
The old bit about only talking about what this class is supposed to cover...
Cheers,
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Dave Ihnat
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