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Subject: Re: PROGRAMFILES variable is not set during openssh session
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On Feb 14 09:27, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Feb 14 04:49, Andrey Repin wrote:
> > Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!
> > 
> > >> PROGRAMFILES variable is not set during openssh session.
> > >> This is very important for remote administrative tasks.
> > 
> > > OpenSSH 6.0p1 is due soon.  I asked to apply a patch upstream so that
> > > PROGRAMFILES is added back to the environment variables passed over
> > > to the child process.
> > 
> > Both of them? (on x86_64 systems, there's two relevant variables)
> 
> Argh.  Can of worms.  No, only the 32 bit variant for now.

Oh, btw., 32 bit processes only see the 32 bit PROGRAMFILES variable
by default.  Which makes sense since PROGRAMFILES for 32 bit processes
is the same as PROGRAMFILES for 64 bit processes...


Corinna

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