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- ENVIRON(7) Minix Programmer's Manual ENVIRON(7)
- NAME
- environ - user environment
- SYNOPSIS
- extern char *const *environ;
- DESCRIPTION
- An array of strings called the `environment' is made available by
- execve(2) when a process begins. By convention these strings have the
- form `name=value'. The following names are used by various commands:
- PATH The sequence of directory prefixes that sh, time, nice(1), etc.,
- apply in searching for a file known by an incomplete path name.
- The prefixes are separated by `:'. Login shells set
- PATH=:/bin:/usr/bin. Note that the empty space between the `='
- and the `:' indicates the current directory. Security aware
- people move the extra `:' to the end of their path or omit it.
- HOME A user's login directory, set by login(1) from the password file
- passwd(5).
- TERM The kind of terminal for which output is to be prepared. This
- information is used by programs that wish to exploit special
- terminal capabilities, a screen oriented text editor for
- instance. The terminal type is set by login(1) from the tty
- database ttytab(5).
- SHELL The file name of the users login shell, set by login(1) from the
- password file passwd(5).
- TERMCAP The string describing the terminal in TERM, or the name of the
- termcap file, see termcap(5), termcap(3).
- EXINIT A startup list of commands read by elvis(1).
- USER The login name of the user, set by login(1) from the password
- file passwd(5).
- LOGNAME Set to the same value as USER. BSD derived systems have USER,
- System V has LOGNAME, so modern systems have both to avoid
- problems.
- Further names may be placed in the environment by the export command and
- `name=value' arguments in sh(1). Arguments may also be placed in their
- environment by programs if they use putenv(3). Or in the environment of
- another program by building a new environment for one of the exec
- functions that accepts an environment list, like execle(2) or execve(2).
- It is unwise to conflict with certain sh(1) variables that are frequently
- set and/or exported by `.profile' files: MAIL, PS1, PS2, IFS.
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- ENVIRON(7) Minix Programmer's Manual ENVIRON(7)
- SEE ALSO
- elvis(1), login(1), sh(1), execl(2), execve(2), system(3), termcap(3),
- termcap(5), ttytab(5).
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