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chore: additional verbiage and clarity
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adrielp committed Oct 15, 2024
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> There are other ways to spawn processes which are more performant like
> exec().
<!-- TODO: Maybe change diagram to not show fork. -->

![Environment Variable Context Propagation](./img/0258-env-context-parent-child-process.png)

In the above diagram, a parent process is forked to spawn a child process,
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Without `TRACEPARENT`, a tracing backend would not be able to connect the child
process spans to the parent span, forming an end-to-end trace.

> Note: While the below exclusively references the W3C Specification, this
> proposal is not exclusive to W3C and is instead focused on the mechanism of
> Text Map Propagation with a potential set of well-known environment variable
> names.
> Note: While the below exclusively follows the W3C Specification translated
> into environment variables, this proposal is not exclusive to W3C and is
> instead focused on the mechanism of Text Map Propagation with a potential set
> of well-known environment variable names. See the [Core Specification
> Changes](#core-specification-changes) section for more information.
Given the above example referencing the W3C Specification, the following is an
elaboration on the mapping to headers defined by W3C.
Given the above example aligning with the W3C Specification, the following is
an contextual mapping of environment variables to headers defined by W3C.

The `traceparent` (lowercase) header is defined in the [W3C
Trace-Context][w3c-parent] specification and includes the following valid
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