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Date:	Thu, 05 May 2005 18:25:54 -0400
From:	"Eric D. Williams" <eric_williams AT infobro DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: cygwin version 1.5.16-1 (exim 4.50-1, minires 1.00-1, perl 5.8.6-4) attempting to run spamassassin (spamc and spamd)

"Brian Dessent" wrote (before I subscribed to the list):

> "Eric D. Williams" wrote:

Also, thanks for the explanation below, I have included with this post
to increase the hits in the google.com cache.  Thank you Brian et. al.,

8<.snip.>8

I neglected to mention, specifically, Christopher 'cgf' Faylor, thanks 
Chris.  BTW, how (by what mecahanism) did you discover that SYSTEMROOT 
was being dropped?  Is there a pre-emptive, e.g., anti-drop path to a 
solution, or is 'clean-up' after reentry(?) the only way.

Eric


> The SYSTEMROOT thing is explained in the archives.  It seems to come up
> every so often.  The gist of it is that the windows socket functions
> require that variable to be set, else they all fail.  When you have
> applications like Apache that launch child processes it's often
> customary in the unix world to strip their environment of all
> nonessential variables, and if that happens with SYSTEMROOT then the
> process can't use sockets.  Code was added in the DLL to try to always
> put the variable back when launching a process if it was stripped, but
> there was a recent regression that caused it to fail in certain
> circumstances (which was fixed promptly by cgf.)
> 
> Brian
> 
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