tclsh does not export changes to env to child process

[Yaakov Selkowitz]

On Mon, 2015-06-29 at 14:45 -0700, Stas Maximov wrote:
> Tcl shell does not export changes to array variable env:
>   http://wiki.tcl.tk/env
> 
> Test script: test_env_export1:
> --------- begin ----------
> set env(FILENAME) filename_val
> puts $env(PATH)
> puts [exec /bin/bash -c {echo $PATH}]
> puts $env(FILENAME)
> puts [exec /bin/bash -c {echo $FILENAME}]
> --------- end ----------
> 
> Expect two lines of output "filename_val", receive only one. The bug
> affects 'guitool' feature of git-gui.
> 
> cygwin 2.0.4-1
> tclsh 8.5

There is no 'tclsh 8.5' package.  Your test case works for me with
the /usr/bin/tclsh provided by our tcl-8.5.18-1 package.  Are you using
some other tclsh?

--
Yaakov



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