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 17:54:31 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: socket() call failing? Message-ID: <20040819155431.GD10590@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20040818192547.GE8110@nerd-marrow.com> <20040818220049.GU10590@cygbert.vinschen.de> <20040819153125.GF8110@nerd-marrow.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040819153125.GF8110@nerd-marrow.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i On Aug 19 11:31, Jay Fenlason wrote: > 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? Not that I'm aware of. And actually I have no idea why the WinSock DLL is adamant to have $SYSTEMROOT set, instead of just using the GetWindowsDirectory() function. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/