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From: Kirk Hilliard <kirk AT ghoti DOT com>
Date: 06 Jun 2006 20:33:54 -0400
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Hi All,

On 03 March I pointed out a bug that caused ``run emacs'' to fail with

  12 [main] emacs 900 C:\cygwin\bin\emacs.exe: *** fatal error -
  internal error reading the windows environment --
  too many environment variables?

The response was promising:

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> After some debugging it turns out that emacs messes around with the
> global environ variable in some non-portable way.  This problem
> didn't show up before, because Cygwin deliberately overwrite the
> value of environ with NULL on startup.  The newer version of Cygwin
> does not overwrite environ anymore, so the strange setting of
> environ gets through to Cygwin and results in a crash since environ
> just points into nirvana or a surrounding area.
>
> This should be fixed in emacs.  Joe?  Still there somewhere?

And:

Alexander Gottwald responded:
> On Fri, 3 Mar 2006, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> > Alexander, does the latest "run" version have the stuff added to
> > regenerate the Windows environment before calling CreateProcess,
> > like cygstart has?
>
> No, sorry. I totally forgot this. I'll create new packages soon

The bug with ``run emacs'' still seems to be present.  What is the
status of this, and is there a bug tracking mechanism that I should be
following other than this list?

Thanks,
Kirk

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