From:	sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin)
Subject:	RE: [BUG] environment not inherited by fork
15 Jun 1997 06:37:51 -0700 :
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Chris Faylor wrote:
> This is due to the fact that there are two environ pointers being maintained:
> one is in the "user space" the other is in "dll space".  The one in "dll space"
> is the one that is updated by putenv() but fork overwrites this with the
> "user space" one when it copies stuff.  I think that, if possible, the
> routines in the .dll that manipulate the environment should only be using
> the environ table in the user space.  Trying to keep the two pointers in
> sync would otherwise be very difficult.

It's in my todo list on the first place now:-)

> 
> This unfortunately would require, I think, changes to the newlib code
> to accomodate the gnuwin32 code.

It's possible to fix this bug without modifying newlib code.

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Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
Moscow, Russia
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