export variable inheritance question

[Scott James Remnant]

On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 15:41 -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote:

> We recently ran into a slightly unexpected side-effect where we
> exported a variable in a jobfile, like so:
> 
> # job1
> env VAR=1
> export VAR
> 
> # job2
> start on job1
> 
>     And $VAR was visible from job2 with the value set in job1 (in this
> case $VAR => 1). Is that intended behavior?
> 
That's what export does.  It places the value of the named environment
variables into the event environment.

What were you using it for? :)

Scott
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