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Re: why does </proc/self/environ not work in bash?


From: Lawrence Velázquez
Subject: Re: why does </proc/self/environ not work in bash?
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2024 16:22:38 -0500
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On Mon, Feb 12, 2024, at 3:56 PM, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> On Mon, 2024-02-12 at 10:06 +0900, Koichi Murase wrote:
>> I quickly checked XCU 2.9.1, but it doesn't seem to specify when the
>> fork (or in other words, the preparation of a separate execution
>> environment) should be performed.
>
> Well it says:
> "3. Redirections shall be performed as described in Redirection"
>
> Which is surrounded by stuff that still has to be done by the shell.

Done by *a* shell.  AFAICT the standard does not say *which* shell
-- the original or a child forked in preparation of executing the
utility.

It seems to me that you are reading your preferences into the
standard, which in reality leaves this matter unspecified.

-- 
vq



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