John Fischer wrote:
>
> PSARC,
>
> I am sponsoring this project for Bruce Rothermal who will be integrating
> this project via the SFW consolidation. I have set the timer for Friday,
> August 28th. The case directory contains this proposal, FOSS check list,
> and appropriate man pages.
>
> This project proposes to integrate the Environment Modules within a
> Minor release of Solaris (i.e., Open Solaris). The environment modules
> provides an easy modification to a user's environment via TCL scripts.
> These scripts set various environmental variables such as PATH, MANPATH,
> etc.
[snip]
> 4. Technical Description:
>
> The environment modules package provides for an easy dynamic
> modification of a user's environment via modulefiles. which
> typically instruct the module command to alter or set shell
> environment variables such as PATH, MANPATH, etc.
How does this work ? AFAIK the shells have no API which allow another
process to just write or override the values of shell-internal values ?
Or is it expected that existing commands in /usr/bin/ are replaced with
the "module" wrapper and then select a matching binariy from {
/usr/gnu/bin/, /usr/oldsystemvcmd/bin/, /usr/bsd/bin/ etc. } ?
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Roland
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