[BusyBox] getenv/setenv problem
Royce Kemp
rkemp at ip3.com
Wed May 4 21:01:35 UTC 2005
you can run your application IN the current shell by entering a '.'
following by a space before the name of your program... example:
. yourprog
this will have the effect of running yourprog in the current shell. hope
that helps.
-r
At 01:17 PM 5/4/2005, David Bruce wrote:
>I'm using busybox 1.00 ash shell. I create an environment variable before
>I run an application. That application will get the environment variable
>(getenv) and set it to something else (setenv), then check the change
>(getenv). Then the application exits. When the application runs again the
>previously changed environment variable is back to its original value.
>I'm assuming that the changed happened in the (sub)shell that is running
>the application. Do I need to do something else to change an environment
>variable in the starting shell?
>
>Thanks,
>Dave
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