Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 13:21:48 -0500 (Central Daylight Time) From: "David A. Rogers" To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Add requirement for SYSTEMROOT to FAQ? In-Reply-To: <20041007170723.GS6702@cygbert.vinschen.de> Message-ID: X-Warning: UNAuthenticated Sender MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-IsSubscribed: yes On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Oct 7 10:52, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > Why is that a requirement anyway? Why is it necessary to hide > $SYSTEMROOT? I don't see a reason for that? > > Corinna > > 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. dar -- 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/