From: fjh AT cs DOT mu DOT OZ DOT AU (Fergus Henderson)
Subject: Re: env bug
25 Jan 1997 05:27:43 -0800
Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com
Distribution: cygnus
Message-ID: <199701251215.XAA14861.cygnus.gnu-win32@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
Content-Type: text
Original-To: aubrey AT eden DOT com
Original-Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com (gnu-win32)
In-Reply-To: <199701241849.MAA14251@natashya.eden.com> from "Aubrey McAuley" at Jan 24, 97 12:40:35 pm
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24]
Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

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.

--
Fergus Henderson <fjh AT cs DOT mu DOT oz DOT au>   |  "I have always known that the pursuit
WWW: <http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~fjh>   |  of excellence is a lethal habit"
PGP: finger fjh AT 128 DOT 250 DOT 37 DOT 3         |     -- the last words of T. S. Garp.
-
For help on using this list, send a message to
"gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".