kvarga01_at_fiu.edu said:
> In my case, yes. I don't believe I've ever been able to pass weird
> environment variables. I know this because I once tried it with my
> IRC environments. I set them in my .xsession hoping they'd get passed
> to irc, but it never happened... I think I saw this come up on the
> list one time earlier as well..... The case isn't that fvwm2 is
> picking and choosing, I think the case is that it's not passing
> ANY... It grabs it's PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH when necessary, and
> runs what it has to run.
That's odd. As far as I can see (just skimming through the code), fvwm2 is
doing a fork(2) which preserves the environment, followed by an execl(3) which
also preserves the environment. (This is for exec_command, which I assume
FvwmButtons and things also use. If you also use xrsh, then be aware that
xrsh only carries a few variables to the remote machine by default.)
A quick check (setting *and exporting* the variable FOOBAR in .xsession and
logging out and back in again) shows that FOOBAR is carried through correctly.
I'd guess this is not fvwm2's problem---it's either user error, or some weird
difference in how fork/execl behave on your machine (I'm using Solaris2.5).
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Received on Wed May 14 1997 - 10:06:16 BST