Re: Manipulating Environment Variables of an Already running process

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2010/10/12 Hatem Nassrat <hnassrat@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Is it possible to, manipulate an environment variables of an already
> running process (using a current linux distro, and not a self hacked
> kernel)?
>
> A usecase, changing the PS1 environement var of an already running
> bash process from another bash process.

No. And even if it were possible you have no guarantees that the other
process will reread the environment variables.
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