Re: Getting a live view of environment variables (Gradle and JDK 9)

[Cédric Champeau]

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> Unfortunately, they are not safely mutable in multi-threaded programs on
> many operating system/libc combinations.
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> But the problem is less about mutating, that it is about reading: the VM
returns wrong values at some point, because it _assumes_ that the
environment variables are not mutated.