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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Odd behaviour of __cygwin_environ?
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On Dec  5 15:00, Dave Korn wrote:
> On 05 December 2007 12:31, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > 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?

It also handles the environment block.  Is there a native process in the
call chain, maybe?  If not, I don't see any other chance than to debug
this further.  spawn_guts() and the build_env() functions might be good
starting points for that.


Corinna

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