setenv from c

[Myke Reynolds]

Well, the following program will pass a parent's environment variables to
a child. It nukes the first env var and replaces it with a new one.
What you want to do is change the internal variables of a parent process.
It will only do that if it wants to let you, there is no inherent way of
doing it. Note that setenv and set are shell commands, not executable
files..

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char	*newvar = "newvar = (here I am !)";

main(argc, argv, envp)
char	**argv, **envp;
{
	envp[0] = newvar;

	execle("/bin/csh", "csh", 0, envp);
}
-- 
Myke Reynolds
Office of Telecommunications and Networking
Georgia Insitute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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