On Thu, 5 Oct 2023 17:31:32 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: >And what if a non-Unix application uses a serrvice that causes dubbing? > I suppose you can call BPXBATCH a shell, but Humpty Dumpty.
Otherwise, you raise several related questions. I looked at one of my favorites: <https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/3.1.0?topic=functions-bpxwunix> env An optional argument, env is the name of a compound variable (stem) that contains environment variables for the command. env.0 must contain the number of environment variables to be passed to the command. env.1, env.2, ... contain the variables in the form variable_name=variable_value. If env is not specified, the current environment is passed to the shell. I'll submit an RCF asking what "current environment" means in ah undubbed address space such as IRXJCL. Perhaps by a user with no OMVS segment; no DEFUSER; etc. ________________________________________ From: Paul Gilmartin Sent: Thursday, October 5, 2023 9:05 AMs On Thu, 5 Oct 2023 11:07:03 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: >Where do you think process initialization gets the variable names and values? > I believe: o If the process is initialized by init (often PID 0), init creates the environ array. o If the process is initialized by fork() the environ array is copied from the parent. o If one of the exec family of functions replaces the current process image, the environ array is copied from the envp[] argument. None of these require a shell. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
