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by gear54rus 3695 days ago
Yes, that I get. I was asking how is the translation from shell to inside of a program happen. On linux, I presume it's done via getenv(3), which means that it can only support strings. The post below says that it simply joins on a ':'. Is that safe for all or even most cases (except obviously PATH, which is delimited by ':')?