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Date: | Wed, 2 May 2001 22:28:50 -0400 |
From: | Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com> |
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Subject: | Re: Forcing SYSTEMROOT (opinions needed) |
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In-Reply-To: | <E94FF01DFF6CD31186F4080009DC361501F8C39D@nttwr2.tower.bldgs.butlermfg.org>; from rdparker@butlermfg.com on Wed, May 02, 2001 at 06:55:19PM -0500 |
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 06:55:19PM -0500, Parker, Ron wrote: >>So we have to trade the possibility of someone wanting complete control >>of his environment versus the possibility of someone not specifying >>SYSTEMROOT but needing it for the program that is about to be run. >> >>Should I flip a coin? > >Since the Winsock dll is dynamically loaded via LoadLibrary, would it >be possible to fill out SYSTEMROOT just prior to the load? Hmm. If we could be guaranteed that the program being loaded was a cygwin program we could. Or, maybe we don't care... This is a creative approach to this problem. I like it. cgf
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