From: Friedrich Psiorz <f.psiorz@gmx.de>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] 9fans Digest, Vol 98, Issue 15
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2012 01:44:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FD28E5C.3020608@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.286.1339197321.2642.9fans@9fans.net>
> The reason seems to be that while creating a variable foo
> in rc is immediately reflected to /env/foo, the reverse is
> not true. That is, creating a new file under /env/baz does
> not update the current rc instance with a new variable $baz
>
> So in this case, putenv is actually writing to /env/foo,
> and it would be visible only if you start a new rc
> instance. (or just read from the same file.)
Ok, so I got the whole idea wrong, I guess. I thought that $var is
basically just syntactic sugar for `{cat /env/var}, so referencing a
variable would always read from /env ...
I don't really understand how and why this is not the case though, but
I'll try to find out by reading a few more manpages ...
next parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-08 23:44 UTC|newest]
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2012-06-08 23:44 ` Friedrich Psiorz [this message]
2012-06-08 23:51 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2012-06-09 0:15 ` erik quanstrom
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