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Setting environment in child (perl )process, and getting it in parent ( perl ) process.

Forking a child perl process from parent perl process.
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Re^3: what is the method to get the environment from child process ?
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Nov 10, 2010 at 08:12 UTC
    Setting environment in child (perl )process, and getting it in parent ( perl ) process. Forking a child perl process from parent perl process.

    You are suggesting using environment vars as an IPC mechanism?

    If so, I don't believe that is possible on any multi-tasking OS.


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