environ.7: Note that child of fork(2) inherits copy of parent's environment

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Michael Kerrisk 2016-02-17 12:21:58 +01:00
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@ -53,6 +53,11 @@ feature test macro is defined.)
This array of strings is made available to the process by the
.BR exec (3)
call that started the process.
When a child process is created via
.BR fork (2),
it inherits a
.I copy
of its parent's environment.
By convention the strings in
.I environ