On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 01:21:48PM -0500, David A. Rogers wrote:
>On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Oct 7 10:52, Christopher Faylor wrote:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
No, I didn't.
>> Why is that a requirement anyway? Why is it necessary to hide
>> $SYSTEMROOT? I don't see a reason for that?
>
>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.
Corinna and I were having a technical discussion. We both understand
the requirements. We were discussing the best way to implement things.
cgf
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