Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!bellcore!tness7!tness1!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Yea, but can an Amiga Shell do this.... Message-ID: <2506@sugar.uu.net> Date: 19 Aug 88 11:49:35 GMT References: <1836.AA1836@heimat> <3782@hcr.UUCP> <1877@iscuva.ISCS.COM> Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston, TX Lines: 16 In article <1877@iscuva.ISCS.COM>, ricks@iscuva.ISCS.COM (Rick Schaeffer) writes: > Most importantly, a shell spawned by CSH should inherit > it's parents environment. The problem is that for CLI programs there isn't a clear definition of what that environment is, in fact there isn't even a clear distinction between a program and it's parent. Normally a CLI program is run in the process context of the CLI... Takes me back to the problems I had with bad old VMS. This is even worse, since at least VMS has the excuse that creating a new process is an expensive proposition. -- Peter da Silva `-_-' peter@sugar.uu.net Have you hugged U your wolf today?