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From: Stephane Chazelas <stephane.chazelas@gmail.com>
To: Kurtis Rader <krader@skepticism.us>
Cc: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>, Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: export
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 07:18:25 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141126071825.GA3962@chaz.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABx2=D_zLTkdFsV+eT-VrwwaJQYr=1JeZF0eNqH44saPDYMD7Q__49907.9755544246$1416977797$gmane$org@mail.gmail.com>

2014-11-25 20:54:39 -0800, Kurtis Rader:
> If by "fake it" you mean cooperative processes that implement a protocol
> for exchanging environment variables then, yes, you can achieve the result
> desired by Ray. However I think that everyone trying to achieve this result
> wants to do so without having to implement a new data exchange protocol in
> every program.
[...]

FYI, the "fish" shell does that.

set -U universal its value

and that $universal variable (here an array) becomes available
in all the fish shells (interactive or not) by the same user on
the machine (with all the security implications it entails).

-- 
Stephane


  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-11-26  7:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-26  0:57 export Ray Andrews
2014-11-26  2:36 ` export Eric Cook
2014-11-26  2:58 ` export Kurtis Rader
2014-11-26  4:32 ` export Bart Schaefer
2014-11-26  4:54   ` export Kurtis Rader
2014-11-26  5:16     ` export Ray Andrews
2014-11-26  5:38       ` export Kurtis Rader
2014-11-26  5:07   ` export Ray Andrews
2014-11-26  5:43     ` export Kurtis Rader
2014-11-26  5:54       ` export Kurtis Rader
2014-11-26 17:43       ` export Ray Andrews
2014-11-26 18:26         ` export Павлов Николай Александрович
2014-11-26 18:45           ` export Ray Andrews
2014-11-26  5:50     ` export Павлов Николай Александрович
2014-11-26  6:21     ` export Kurtis Rader
     [not found]   ` <CABx2=D_zLTkdFsV+eT-VrwwaJQYr=1JeZF0eNqH44saPDYMD7Q__49907.9755544246$1416977797$gmane$org@mail.gmail.com>
2014-11-26  7:18     ` Stephane Chazelas [this message]
2014-11-26 13:37       ` export Clint Hepner
2014-11-26  9:27 ` export Peter Stephenson

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