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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs