well, there it is then.. its not a 'child' its a peer..
Flexvault is mistaken. It's a child, and it does inherit environment variables. Here are a couple of linux scripts that demonstrate this. First, /tmp/myenv just prints any environment variables that have 'MY' in the name: 
#!/usr/bin/perl
print "$_=>$ENV{$_}\n" for grep /MY/, sort keys %ENV;

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Then the main script, which 'opens' myenv: 
#!/usr/bin/perl

$ENV{MYA} = 'a';
$ENV{MYB} = 'b';
$ENV{C}   = 'c';
open(CMD, "/tmp/myenv 2>&1 |") or die "open: $!\n";
while (<CMD>) {
    chomp;
    print "got: <$_>\n";
}

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Running this gives: 
got: <MYA=>a>
got: <MYB=>b>

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Dave.

In reply to Re^3: passing env{} variable to child fails on linux,works on windows by dave_the_m
in thread passing env{} variable to child fails on linux,works on windows by sdetweil

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