Sticky IBM C programming problems (summary of replies)

[Henry Spencer]

In article <9003012109.AA07700 at ei.ecn.purdue.edu> tlmfe at EE.ECN.PURDUE.EDU (Mark B Strong) writes:
>Quick question:  Why won't an environmental variable I change within
>a C program stay after the program is terminated?  Setenv() doesn't seem
>to work?  

Assuming you are running on a Unix system...  The environment variables
your program gets are *copies* of those in its parent shell, and are in
the program's own address space.  There is no way for the program to
affect its parent's variables.
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