// Purpose: Environment function and macro group docs
// Author: wxWidgets team
// RCS-ID: $Id: funcmacro_gdi.h 52454 2008-03-12 19:08:48Z BP $
-// Licence: wxWindows license
+// Licence: wxWindows licence
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
/**
variables in a portable way. They are currently implemented under Win32 and
POSIX-like systems (Unix).
+Remember that these functions add/change/delete environment variables of the
+current process only. Child processes copy the environment variables of the parent
+but do not share them (a wxSetEnv() in the parent process won't change the value
+returned by wxGetEnv() in the child process and viceversa).
+
+For more evoluted interprocess communication tecniques see @ref overview_ipc.
+
*/