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

[Krishna]

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 8:11 PM, Krishna <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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?
>

unistd.h defines char** environ. exporting that to smalltalk should
solve the problem right?


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