[log in to unmask] (Dennis Handly) wrote:

>Shawn Gordon ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
>: *except* for C-TIME-DIFF which will always contain the value from when the
>: program started.  This would seem to be a bug.
>: Shawn Gordon
>
>Perhaps we put a cache in there when we implemented it?
>Walter could tell you for sure.
>"fixing" this may kill performance.

I thought at run-time the library stuff only retrieved the values
of any environment variables once, at program initiation.  Otherwise,
you could have a program reset the value of COBRUNTIME repeatedly
and have all error handling be a moving target.  :-)


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