Thank you for all the replies. Now I understand why. Here is my problem. I have a script (written in REXX, a interpreted scripting language) that need to read a string created by a C program. Currently, I use a temporary file. The C code writes the string to a file and then latter the script will read it. I hope to simplify things by using an environment variable, but it does not seem to be working. What would you do to solve this problem?
Regards, Nemo ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Peery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2002 3:12 AM Subject: Re: How to modify evironment variables in a C program > > As designed. If any child program could alter the values of the environment > setting in their parent process, chaos could ensue. Imagine for a moment that > I convince you to play my game called "rogue"--and then change your session so > that your path is altered to find different commands. > > Try "man sh", then search for "eval" within the man page. > > Alan > _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
