Question about lifetime of environment variables in job files

[Garrett Cooper]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:26 PM, Matthias Urlichs <smurf at smurf.noris.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Garrett Cooper:
>> env VAR=0
>>
> Don't forget that environment variables are inherited from parent to
> child. That's _it_.
>
>> echo "POST MESS: $VAR"
>
> ... so this would probably print zero, if it was actually used to stop
> your job.
>
> Since that job exits on its own, pre_stop isn't run.
>
> To fix that, you might want to write a precognition module. Unfortunately,
> Kernel support for crystal balls still seems to be missing. ;-)
>
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Yeah, duh. Heheh...
-Garrett