Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/10/07/13:06:25
On Oct 7 10:52, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 10:20:53AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On Oct 6 21:53, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >> Or, even better yet, Corinna could we force SYSTEMROOT to be used
> >> somehow but masked if someone removes it from the environment?
> >
> >Hmm, usually applications which suffer from a missing SYSTEMROOT are
> >spawned by a parent process which has explicitely created a new
> >environment block for the child and then calls execvp. So the new
> >child is already missing SYSTEMROOT on process startup. What about
> >always adding SYSTEMROOT to the windows env created in build_env,
> >if it's missing?
>
> That's what I was thinking. And then lying about its existence if
> someone queries the environment via getenv and SYSTEMROOT is "not
> supposed to be there".
>
> What an amazingly lame requirement...
Why is that a requirement anyway? Why is it necessary to hide
$SYSTEMROOT? I don't see a reason for that?
Corinna
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