Ah, OK then...
-----Original Message-----
From: Gordon Messmer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 1:32 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: How to modify evironment variables in a C program
On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 09:53, Burke, Thomas G. wrote:
> I would try using a system call in the C program.
>
> try
>
> ...
> system("setenv foo bar");
> ...
The system call is not passed on to the parent shell, it's run in a
sub-shell.
I don't believe it's at all possible to call setenv in a system call,
just as you can't `sh setenv foo bar` in a shell (try it), since it's
not an application in the PATH.
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