Re: [Dev-luatex] Rationale for using putenv?

Taco Hoekwater writes:

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Anyway, option a) presumably also would require to place the table keeping score of environment variables into Lua context 0, in order to make sure that it remains available until LuaTeX exits.

There is an os.env table already, but it is initialized only once. In any case, I will probably move to the 'ex' interface soon instead of my own code+LuaFileSystem:

http://lua-users.org/wiki/ExtensionProposal

Well, one probably needs to wait at least until the namespace question discussed on that page has been cleared. A good security model will probably remain an area good for headaches. -- David Kastrup