On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 03:11:57PM -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote: > That's not my experience. I routinely spawn processes from my editor (an > Emacs clone) and those processes get their environment from the editor, not > from its parent, the Windows desktop shell. The environment seen in the > System object is just what the desktop process loads when it starts. The > desktop process is similar to the init process in Linux, the ancestor of > all processes. If you're spawning them from the editor, their parent is the editor.... -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 77 degrees Fahrenheit.
