We have a application running on a UNIX server that provides many APIs to
integrate with this application.  In order to access the APIs, the
environment must be set up with certain lookup data, and system-dependent
variables and profiles.  This application comes with a couple of profile
files that are sourced at login time to set up individual users with the
correct environment.

The problem I have is running a C program that calls some of these APIs.
The program runs successfully when I run it from the UNIX command line,
either in the foreground or background (because my environment is always
properly setup at login).  When I try to execute the program from a UNIX C
shell script, the API calls don't work because the environment is
undefined.  I even tried to source the profile files from the shell script
before running the program, but the program seems to get spawned off to
another shell that is not set up with the needed environmental variables.

Is there a way to make sure the program is run in the desired environment?

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Another problem may be with permissions. Again it is not C issue, but
Unix.

Best regards
Alexander

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