Subject: Re: env bug
From: [email-masked] (Fergus Henderson)

25 Jan 1997 05:27:43 -0800
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In-Reply-To: <[email-masked]> from "Aubrey McAuley" at Jan 24, 97 12:40:35 pm
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Aubrey McAuley, you wrote:
> 
> It appears that the problem is not limited env.exe but is a much 
> deeper bug that may be related to problems in popen(). We have 
> several CGIs that use popen() and setenv(), but under NT gnu-win32 
> these functions do not appear to work correctly, meaning that we 
> cannot spawn external processes that have an environment different 
> from the parent.
> 
> Are we missing something simple? Has anyone else encountered this 
> problem? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I encountered (and reported on this list) a similar problem where
`make' fails to export variables to the environment.

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