From 7d19cbd54ad60474aded4b9fe587c7f53a14d488 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Arnold D. Robbins" <arnold@skeeve.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 20:47:49 +0300
Subject: Changes to ENVIRON reflect into the environment.

---
 doc/gawk.1 | 10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'doc/gawk.1')

diff --git a/doc/gawk.1 b/doc/gawk.1
index 7f31c254..8d343024 100644
--- a/doc/gawk.1
+++ b/doc/gawk.1
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 .		if \w'\(rq' .ds rq "\(rq
 .	\}
 .\}
-.TH GAWK 1 "May 09 2013" "Free Software Foundation" "Utility Commands"
+.TH GAWK 1 "Aug 15 2013" "Free Software Foundation" "Utility Commands"
 .SH NAME
 gawk \- pattern scanning and processing language
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -917,11 +917,17 @@ An array containing the values of the current environment.
 The array is indexed by the environment variables, each element being
 the value of that variable (e.g., \fBENVIRON["HOME"]\fP might be
 \fB"/home/arnold"\fR).
-Changing this array does not affect the environment seen by programs which
+.sp
+In POSIX mode,
+changing this array does not affect the environment seen by programs which
 .I gawk
 spawns via redirection or the
 .B system()
 function.
+Otherwise,
+.I gawk
+updates its real environment so that programs it spawns see
+the changes.
 .TP
 .B ERRNO
 If a system error occurs either doing a redirection for
-- 
cgit v1.2.3