Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 11:31:25 -0400 From: Jay Fenlason To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: socket() call failing? Message-ID: <20040819153125.GF8110@nerd-marrow.com> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20040818192547.GE8110@nerd-marrow.com> <20040818220049.GU10590@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040818220049.GU10590@cygbert.vinschen.de> 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? -- JF -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/