Re: Env variables readable by an application

2007-12-28 Thread Travis Thornhill
"Chas. Owens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: No, environmental variables are a per-process thing. Child processes inherit the state of their parent's environment, but that is it. If you need inter-process communication you have to use IPC*, a file, a database, or some other external resource. Take

Re: Env variables readable by an application

2007-12-27 Thread Chas. Owens
On Dec 28, 2007 2:24 AM, Travis Thornhill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: snip > Is there a way to do this? In other words, is there a way to > set env variables that ANY user and ANY application can see? snip No, environmental variables are a per-process thing. Child processes inherit the state o