setenv? Abdulaziz Ghuloum (05 Jul 2008 22:22 UTC)
Re: setenv? Aubrey Jaffer (06 Jul 2008 01:01 UTC)
Re: setenv? Abdulaziz Ghuloum (06 Jul 2008 01:17 UTC)
Re: setenv? Shiro Kawai (06 Jul 2008 01:55 UTC)

Re: setenv? Aubrey Jaffer 06 Jul 2008 00:55 UTC

 | From: Abdulaziz Ghuloum <xxxxxx@gmail.com>
 | Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 15:20:51 -0700
 |
 | Thanks for submitting this srfi.
 |
 | Is there a reason why this srfi is only about getenv and not about
 | the environment in general?  Why not simply add "setenv" and
 | "environ" and get it over with?

(getenv) returns what is essentially environ.

As for setenv, what would be the scope of the environment variables it
changes?  Would it be processes spawned the Scheme process calling
setenv?  What standing do child processes have in R6RS?