Re: Manipulating Environment Variables of an Already running process
Hatem Nassrat <[email protected]>
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2010/10/13 Michał Nazarewicz <[email protected]> > 2010/10/12 Hatem Nassrat <[email protected]>: > > A usecase, changing the PS1 environement var of an already running > > bash process from another bash process. > > No. And even if it were possible you have no guarantees that the other > process will reread the environment variables. Well the use case I gave is one where the env var gets reread for each new prompt. Direct memory manipulation seems to be the only way I can think of, but I do not think this is possible in userland. I was thinking maybe there is a hidden sys call that might make this possible, like a very hacky and unstable IPC :), yeah there is no sane reason for such a feature but it would be cool to know if its at all possible. -- Hatem Nassrat -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs