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diff --git a/doc/gawktexi.in b/doc/gawktexi.in index 7e8197d7..8fe83dae 100644 --- a/doc/gawktexi.in +++ b/doc/gawktexi.in @@ -13062,10 +13062,18 @@ it is not special. An associative array containing the values of the environment. The array indices are the environment variable names; the elements are the values of the particular environment variables. For example, -@code{ENVIRON["HOME"]} might be @file{/home/arnold}. Changing this array -does not affect the environment passed on to any programs that -@command{awk} may spawn via redirection or the @code{system()} function. -@c (In a future version of @command{gawk}, it may do so.) +@code{ENVIRON["HOME"]} might be @file{/home/arnold}. + +For POSIX @command{awk}, changing this array does not affect the +environment passed on to any programs that @command{awk} may spawn via +redirection or the @code{system()} function. + +However, beginning with version 4.2, if not in POSIX +compatibility mode, @command{gawk} does update its own environment when +@code{ENVIRON} is changed, thus changing the environment seen by programs +that it creates. You should therefore be especially careful if you +modify @code{ENVIRON["PATH"]"}, which is the search path for finding +executable programs. Some operating systems may not have environment variables. On such systems, the @code{ENVIRON} array is empty (except for @@ -34274,9 +34282,10 @@ mail at the Internet address noted previously. If you find bugs in one of the non-Unix ports of @command{gawk}, please send an electronic mail message to the person who maintains that port. They -are named in the following list, as well as in the @file{README} file in the @command{gawk} -distribution. Information in the @file{README} file should be considered -authoritative if it conflicts with this @value{DOCUMENT}. +are named in the following list, as well as in the @file{README} file +in the @command{gawk} distribution. Information in the @file{README} +file should be considered authoritative if it conflicts with this +@value{DOCUMENT}. The people maintaining the non-Unix ports of @command{gawk} are as follows: @@ -34292,14 +34301,17 @@ as follows: @item OS/2 @tab Andreas Buening, @EMAIL{andreas.buening@@nexgo.de,andreas dot buening at nexgo dot de}. @cindex Rankin, Pat -@item VMS @tab Pat Rankin, @EMAIL{r.pat.rankin@@gmail.com,r.pat.rankin at gmail.com} +@cindex Malmberg, John +@item VMS @tab Pat Rankin, @EMAIL{r.pat.rankin@@gmail.com,r.pat.rankin at gmail.com}, and +John Malmberg, @EMAIL{wb8tyw@@gmail.com,wb8tyw at gmail.com}. @cindex Pitts, Dave @item z/OS (OS/390) @tab Dave Pitts, @EMAIL{dpitts@@cozx.com,dpitts at cozx dot com}. @end multitable If your bug is also reproducible under Unix, please send a copy of your -report to the @EMAIL{bug-gawk@@gnu.org,bug-gawk at gnu dot org} email list as well. +report to the @EMAIL{bug-gawk@@gnu.org,bug-gawk at gnu dot org} email +list as well. @c ENDOFRANGE dbugg @c ENDOFRANGE tblgawb |