On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 19:55, Mike Frysinger <vap...@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Saturday 31 October 2009 11:00:02 Christopher Barry wrote:
> > Probably an over-asked question.
> > Q: I start udhcpc from scriptA. udhcpc runs scriptB on a bound event.
> > Will scriptB see the environment of scriptA, i.e. can I access functions
> > defined in scriptA from scriptB, or would I need to re-source these into
> > scriptB?
>
> the environment of one process cannot be changed by any other process
> (ignoring invasive hacks that can do this), and environments are inherited
> from their parent.
>
> further, functions are not exported via the environment (ignoring the non-
> standard and disabled-by-default extensions that bash provides).
>


Which sounds like "yes, you'd have to re-source these functions"

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