I've manned around and found putenv(3) which changes and edits environment variables.. What I need is to toggle the LD_ASSUME_KERNEL var in a running proccess . Shouldn't that be enough? Isn't putenv supposed to work on a running proccess?
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 09:38:21 +0300, Nadav Har'El <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 14, 2004, Shachar Shemesh wrote about "Re: Manipulating an environment > variable of a running proccess...": > > >Hi, I'm trying to manipulate a running procces's environment variable > > >while it's running. > > Hook it like a debugger, and change it's runtime environment. It's your > > only more-or-less sane option. > > But note that whether this will work will depend on the actual program. > If a program calls getenv() only when it needs a value, you'll be fine > (but you can have the danger of a race condition, if you accidentally change > the environment while it is being read). > > But if the program in question copies the environment to a different place > in memory after reading it (e.g., I suppose shells do that), and use that > copy instead of the original one, you'll have to know exactly what the > program does to know where and how to change its concept of the environment > variables. > > -- > Nadav Har'El | Thursday, Jul 15 2004, 26 Tammuz 5764 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- > Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Strike not only while the iron is hot, > http://nadav.harel.org.il |make the iron hot by striking it. > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
