Re: PERL Module Problem...

[Kris Kennaway]

On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Dr Stephen Henson wrote:

> Is there any circumstances where the environment isn't safe? I believe
> extra privs are normally needed to read another users processes
> environment.

I deleted the rest of this thread so I can't tell whether this was
answered (probably it was), but just to be safe: under most versions of
UNIX the environment of another process is public knowledge requiring no
special privileges to read.

Do a 'ps -e' on a BSD-derived UNIX sometime.

Kris

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