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AI-generatedProcess.spawn environment inheritance behavior unspecified in Crystal
Environment variable propagation gap Crystal's Process.spawn API accepts an optional env hash to define the child process environment, yet the documentation does not state whether the parent's environment is inherited when env is omitted. Empirical testing shows that variables set in the parent are absent in the spawned process unless explicitly forwarded. I
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