Set an environment variable

[Alex Martelli]

Grant Edwards <grante at visi.com> wrote:

> On 2005-10-24, Eric Brunel <eric_brunel at despammed.com> wrote:
> 
> >> The only think you can export an environment variable to is a
> >> child process
> >
> > Well, you know that, and I know that too. From my experience,
> > many people don't...
> 
> True.  Using Unix for 20+ years probably warps one's perception
> of what's obvious and what isn't.

This specific issue is identical in Windows, isn't it?  I do not know
any OS which does have the concept of "environment variable" yet lets
such variables be ``exported'' to anything but a child process.


Alex