topic Re: How can I find out what is the environment of a process in Operating System - HP-UX

How can I find out what is the environment of a process

Fedon Kadifeli_1 — Fri, 28 Apr 2000 00:16:11 GMT

Is it possible (maybe through adb) to find out and/or change the environment
variables of a process?

Re: How can I find out what is the environment of a process

Randy Mather — Fri, 28 Apr 2000 07:40:09 GMT

adb can change system kernel variable values, but I am not sure about a
particular process.
I would not recommend doing this though. Better to research the problem, and
change the kernel, rebuild new kernel and reboot.
What is the problem ?

Re: How can I find out what is the environment of a process

Fedon Kadifeli_1 — Sat, 29 Apr 2000 01:43:30 GMT

I was talking about the process environment variables of a *normal* process,
not the kernel parameters.

Re: How can I find out what is the environment of a process

David Rodman_2 — Tue, 02 May 2000 03:33:12 GMT

The short answer is to modify the process and rerun it.
You can put in a command to dump the envirnoment to a
file. (e.g. setenv >> /tmp/myenvironment ) there are
equivalent commands for each shell, and for executables.
As far as trying to look inside of a running process from an external viewpoint
and find the environment... Try not to make it too hard on your self!