On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Oct 7 10:52, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > Why is that a requirement anyway? Why is it necessary to hide > $SYSTEMROOT? I don't see a reason for that? > > Corinna > > apache strips it out before launching cgi programs. cgi programs that need to access a socket can't because they don't have a $SYSTEMROOT variable.
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