Re: [Help-smalltalk] How to access environment variables ?

[Krishna]

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
> Krishna wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> There are extra shell variables showing up like PATH, BASH, TERM, etc.
>>>> which do not show up in a CGI environment using any other language that
>>>> I've used to write a similar CGI program (Perl, PHP, Lisp, Scheme, C,
>>>> Tcl).  All of them print out the same variables as the output of the
>>>> Perl script.  What we seem to  be doing in Smalltalk is forking/execing
>>>> a shell and and then getting the environment variables so that we end up
>>>> with variables from a hybrid environment of CGI and shell.
>>
>> why not call getenv(3) using the C interface?
>
> He wants *all* the variables, not just one.
>
ha! ok. is it possible to build a custom gst with int main(int argc,
char** argv, char** envp) and slurp the environment from there?

another thing: can't you get away with a known set of environment
variables in a CGI script?



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