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Date:	Thu, 19 Aug 2004 17:54:31 +0200
From:	Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: socket() call failing?
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On Aug 19 11:31, Jay Fenlason wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 12:00:49AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
> > Does the parent process reduce the environment to some bare minimum?
> > Check if the child process still has $SYSTEMROOT set.
> 
> It has a function called safe_env() which strips out everything except
> TZ and (optionally) PATH.  Modifying it to not strip SYSTEMROOT
> allowed Amanda to back up my test directory.  Tonight I'll see if it
> can now back up everything.  Then I'll say that it works.
> 
> Are there any other environment variables that it's dangerous to
> strip?

Not that I'm aware of.  And actually I have no idea why the WinSock DLL
is adamant to have $SYSTEMROOT set, instead of just using the
GetWindowsDirectory() function.


Corinna

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