Re: one global way to set environment variables - xdm patch
In article <[🔎] 19980223203048.48297@hazel> you wrote:
> Andreas Jellinghaus <aj@dungeon.inka.de> wrote:
>> but i think there should realy be one global way to set environment
> ...
>> sourceing the file does not help, as the variables should be exported.
> How about:
> . /etc/environment
> eval export `cut -f1 -d= </etc/environment`
set -a is defined by posix you know.
> That works as long as you're working with a /bin/sh script. [Maybe
> eventually we have a line length problem, but hopefully we'll never have
> hundreds of kilobytes of environmental variable names, nor a shell that
> is too lame to deal with less].
Sure that's unlikely, but the limit is actually in the kernel.
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