On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 10:20:53AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Oct 6 21:53, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> Didn't we resolve that the need for SYSTEMROOT in the environment should >> be in the FAQ at some point? >> >> Joshua, could you add something about how SYSTEMROOT is required for proper >> operation with winsock? > >That would be good. > >> Or, even better yet, Corinna could we force SYSTEMROOT to be used >> somehow but masked if someone removes it from the environment? > >Hmm, usually applications which suffer from a missing SYSTEMROOT are >spawned by a parent process which has explicitely created a new >environment block for the child and then calls execvp. So the new >child is already missing SYSTEMROOT on process startup. What about >always adding SYSTEMROOT to the windows env created in build_env, >if it's missing?
That's what I was thinking. And then lying about its existence if someone queries the environment via getenv and SYSTEMROOT is "not supposed to be there". What an amazingly lame requirement... cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
