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, 7 Oct 2004 14:40:21 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Add requirement for SYSTEMROOT to FAQ? Message-ID: <20041007184021.GK14536@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20041007170723.GS6702@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 01:21:48PM -0500, David A. Rogers wrote: >On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Oct 7 10:52, Christopher Faylor wrote: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ No, I didn't. >> Why is that a requirement anyway? Why is it necessary to hide >> $SYSTEMROOT? I don't see a reason for that? > >apache strips it out before launching cgi programs. cgi programs that >need to access a socket can't because they don't have a $SYSTEMROOT >variable. Corinna and I were having a technical discussion. We both understand the requirements. We were discussing the best way to implement things. cgf -- 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/