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

Question

On Unix, is there any way that one process can change another's environment variables (assuming they're all being run by the same user)? A general solution would be best, but if not, what about the specific case where one is a child of the other?

Edit: How about via gdb?

Answer 1

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.