On 7/7/12 11:39 AM, Jason Vas Dias wrote: > Next Question : > - any plans to allow us to export array or associative store > variables ? ie. represent them in *environ passed to programs > with an integration with glibc "getenv()" to support this ?
There is already code -- commented out -- to export array variables in a format that resembles a compound array assignment, and code -- still commented out -- in bash to understand them. It's not enabled because the chance for obscure collisions with similarly-formed environment variables is non-negligible and doesn't have an elegant solution. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/