More questions about how to issue a C-SHELL command within a C program

[Randal Schwartz]

In article <FPB.90Aug16004855 at ittc.ittc.wec.com>, fpb at ittc (Frank P. Bresz) writes:
| 	Why not just use the putenv system call with something akin to:
| 
| putenv("TERM=adm3a");	/* notify subprocess that it is an adm3a terminal */

Nope.  That changes the *current* process (the C program), not the
parent process (the parent shell).  You *must* involve the parent
process if you want programs invoked after the C program to see the
change (unless you intend the C program to perform all the future
invocations... yuck).

Just another UNIX hacker,
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