GNUstep runtime & putenv()

[ian . mondragon]

**NOTE: i sent this message earlier from another account, but it doesn't
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:-)

all-

in the past couple of days i have been designing a tool that populates a
user's environment via the GNUstepDefaults as opposed to the traditional
.profile & shell .rc files, which i am calling "gshell".  while the code is
~80% in place, i have come to realize that the GNUstep objc runtime caches
the user environment & restores it to it's original state upon
app/tool/whatever completion, according to the laws of NSProccessInfo - i
have verified this by calling another (straight c) program during execution
& witnessing my work doing exactly what it supposed to do (namely, working),
only to have the environment reset afterwards.

can anyone give me a pointer (har, har) on how to work around this and have
setenv() and putenv() populate the *real* environment instead of the cached
one?

thanks for any/all help.

-ian

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Ian Mondragon
System Engineer
Bank of America [Chicago]       ian.mondragon@bankofamerica.com