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by withinboredom 77 days ago
environment variables can change while the process is running and are not memory safe (though I suspect node tries to wrap it with a lock). Meaning if you check a variable at point A, enter a branch and check it again at point B ... it's not guaranteed that they will be the same value. This can cause you to enter "impossible conditions".
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efskap 76 days ago
Wait, is it expected for them to be able to change? According to this SO answer [0] it's only really possible through GDB or "nasty hacks" as there's no API for it.

[0] https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/38205/change-enviro...

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withinboredom 76 days ago
The process itself (including other threads) can call setenv whenever it wants.
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