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Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 14:11:34 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: 1.3.5: error in inheriting new PATH
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On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 10:40:35AM +0100, Heiko_Elger AT arburg DOT com wrote:
>I'm sorry to post the same problem as in
>http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-11/msg00361.html again, but the answer
>I was given in
>http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-11/msg00393.html could not be
>the solution!
>
>I have the following problem:
>
>If a MS WIN 32 program changes his environment PATH variable to a very
>long value (over 270 characters) and than calling a CYGWIN program per
>system() call the path inside the CYGWIN program is reset to NULL! If
>it calls a MS WIN 32 program all works fine.

If you set a component of the path to a very long value the results are
undefined in cygwin.

cgf

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