Re: [Help-smalltalk] How to access environment variables ?

[Krishna]

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > There are extra shell variables showing up like PATH, BASH, TERM, etc.
> > which do not show up in a CGI environment using any other language that
> > I've used to write a similar CGI program (Perl, PHP, Lisp, Scheme, C,
> > Tcl).  All of them print out the same variables as the output of the
> > Perl script.  What we seem to  be doing in Smalltalk is forking/execing
> > a shell and and then getting the environment variables so that we end up
> > with variables from a hybrid environment of CGI and shell.

why not call getenv(3) using the C interface?


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