From: sos@prospect.com.ru (Sergey Okhapkin)
Subject: RE: [BUG] environment not inherited by fork
15 Jun 1997 03:48:23 -0700
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Chris Faylor wrote:
> The following code illustrates a problem with cygwin.dll b18 (the Cygnus
> release version).
> 
> #include <stdio.h>
> main(int argc, char **argv)
> {
> putenv("FOO=BAR");
> printf("parent FOO=%s\n", getenv("FOO"));
> if (fork() > 0) {
>     wait(0);
>     exit(0);
> }
> printf("child FOO=%s\n", getenv("FOO"));
> exit(0);
> }
> 
> It erroneously produces the following output:
> 
> parent FOO=BAR
> child FOO=(null)
> 

It is not neccessary to write such special test program. Just run

"env zzz=asd env" - you'll not see zzz var in env's output.

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Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
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