No, a process can't modify the environment of its parent (and the parent of a
program is typically a shell). You could have the program output the desired
environment variable contents and do
% YOURENVVAR=`yourprogramname`
- Rob
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> Is there a way to create and export from c an environment
> variable a bash script can be aware of? I intend something
> like PATH, etc.
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