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From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>
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On 2008-Aug-22 11:04:49 +0200, Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> wrote:
>Question - is the process' ENV easily available in this part
>of the kernel, so one could in principle use environment variables
>as replacement strings ?

No.  The original environment is in a known location but a process is
free to reorganise its environment to be based in a different location.

--=20
Peter Jeremy
Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement
an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour.

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