On Jul 5, 2008, at 5:55 PM, Aubrey Jaffer wrote:

> (getenv) returns what is essentially environ.

As others have already suggested, it's better to have a separate
procedure for this.

> As for setenv, what would be the scope of the environment variables it
> changes?  Would it be processes spawned the Scheme process calling
> setenv?

That and subsequent calls to getenv.  Basically, it would do what the
libc
setenv does.

> What standing do child processes have in R6RS?

I don't understand your question.  Most Scheme systems provide some sort
of fork/exec/process functionality and many (I presume) already have a
setenv so it would make sense to put it under this srfi instead of
having
a srfi that provides a single procedure.