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Subject: GetEnvironmentVariable doesn't work
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Hi!

I set some environment variable. When I try to get it with
GetEnvironmentVariable{A,W} it return empty result. With "getenv" I
can get variable value. Also I think GetEnvironmentVariable doesn't
work inside Cygwin.dll (maybe I wrong).
My example code is:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <windows.h>

int main()
{
   char* res = getenv("MYVARIABLE");
   if (res)
   {
      printf("MYVARIABLE (via getenv) is %s\n",res);
   }
   char gev_res[256] = {'\0'};
   GetEnvironmentVariableA("MYVARIABLE",gev_res,256);
   printf("MYVARIABLE (via GetEnvironmentVariableA) is %s\n",gev_res);
   return 0;
}

Is it a bug of Cygwin feature that I can't use GetEnvironmentVariable?

Thanks, Alexey!

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