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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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@ -53,6 +53,11 @@ feature test macro is defined.)
This array of strings is made available to the process by the This array of strings is made available to the process by the
.BR exec (3) .BR exec (3)
call that started the process. 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 By convention the strings in
.I environ .I environ