fork: don't clear environment by default

- Set options.env to process.env instead of {} by default. - Shallow clone the passed options.env in case the user passed process.env directly.
nodejs · Mar 7, 2012 · 024451c · 024451c
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diff --git a/lib/child_process.js b/lib/child_process.js
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ exports.fork = function(modulePath /*, args, options*/) {
 
   // Just need to set this - child process won't actually use the fd.
   // For backwards compat - this can be changed to 'NODE_CHANNEL' before v0.6.
-  if (!options.env) options.env = { };
+  options.env = util._extend({}, options.env || process.env);
   options.env.NODE_CHANNEL_FD = 42;
 
   // stdin is the IPC channel.