Paul Leder wrote on Thursday, February 07, 2008 3:31 PM:: > Eric Blake wrote: > >> Bash has two variable namespaces - shell variables, and environment >> variables. Are you sure SHELL was exported to the environment, and >> not just in the bash shell variable namespace? > > thanks - I had no idea there were 2 variable namespaces. It looks like > everything I can see in 'environ' was explcitly exported in > /etc/profile, or ~/.bashrc, or picked up from Windows. > > Is there a way for C programs to pick up the contents of the shell > variable namespace? In particular, is there some way I can pick up > SHELL, or some other way that I can find out if my app's running on > bash? > > Thanks > > -Paul
Just export the variables you want. That's the whole point of the export command. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
