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Subject: RE: Odd behaviour of __cygwin_environ?
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 15:00:59 -0000
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On 05 December 2007 12:31, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> On Dec  4 18:17, Dave Korn wrote:
>>   I'm trying to track down a bug where a child process doesn't inherit all
>> the environment variables set in its parent, so I figured I'd add a bunch
>> of strace debugging.  I wrote this routine to dump an envp[]-style
>> pointer-array environment block: [...]
>>   Am I giving myself a race here?  I thought it would be OK to dump
>> __cygwin_environ from inside cur_environ because we're in the "if
>> (*main_environ != __cygwin_environ)" clause, which IIUIC is switching over
>> from the earlystartup minimal win32 environment to the full posix
>> environment, 
> 
> Did you read the comment right in front of the cur_environ() function?

  Yep, but I didn't get the implication!

> This happens every time the application code has changed the
> environment, not using the setenv/putenv functions, but rather by
> replacing the global environ pointer with it's self-built environment
> block.  Usually this also means that the former environment block has
> been free'd by the application.  This means that at this point you see
> __cygwin_environ with some non-0 probability referencing garbage.

  Ah, that's reassuring.

> If you want to see the actual environment block, print __cygwin_environ
> after the if-clause.  If you encounter an incomplete environment block
> at this point, it might also be of some interest to see from where
> cur_environ() has been called.
> 
> Do you have a very big environment? 

  Yep, huge!

> Keep in mind that the size of the
> native environment block is restricted to 32K.

  I thought when cygexec was in effect the posix environment and commandline
were passed around-behind-the-back-of CreateProcess, bypassing that limit?  Or
does it only handle the commandline but not environment?

    cheers,
      DaveK
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