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From: Joey Mukherjee <joey AT swri DOT edu>
Subject: Exec and parent environment
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 11:31:28 -0500

I am having a problem with some Cygwin compiled programs and am hoping 
for some advice.  I have a menu program which is started from the 
Desktop by its icon.  In this menu program, I modify the environment 
for any child programs that it launches.  This works great until the 
child program launches a child of its own.

In the child code, I use execvp to do the launch; however, I don't 
believe the child process (grandchild to menu program) is getting the 
enviroment variables copied from the parent (child of menu program).

Does this seem like a bug?  Is there a better way to do what I am doing?

I can make the grandchild work if I put the environment variables in 
the Control Panel->System->Advanced->Environment Variables.

I hope this makes sense and thanks in advance for any advice!

Joey


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