Is there a way to change the environment variables of another process in Unix?

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Via gdb:

(gdb) attach process_id

(gdb) call putenv ("env_var_name=env_var_value")

(gdb) detach

This is quite a nasty hack and should only be done in the context of a debugging scenario, of course.

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