From: jqb AT netcom DOT com (Jim Balter)
Subject: Re: Sorting environment
12 Apr 1997 01:19:58 -0700
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Ken Estes wrote:

> All documentaion I have seen requires that NT environment be sorted
> (more then just one parenthetical comment), thus it is a constraint of

Cites, please.  The MSVC helpbook info for CreateProcess, for instance,
does not state that the environment block must be sorted.

> the Win32 API which intends to be independent of 95/NT and is the
> target of the Cygwin32 effort. I have personally verified this bug
> under the conditions I have explained.

ditto:

bash$ cmd
Microsoft(R) Windows N
(C) Copyright 1985-199

c:\>set
....
PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD
PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE=x86
....
PID=2201

c:\>set PID=99

c:\>set
....
PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD
PID=99
PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE=x86
....
PID=2201


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