From: aubrey@eden.com ("Aubrey McAuley") Subject: env bug 24 Jan 1997 19:35:53 -0800 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199701241849.MAA14251.cygnus.gnu-win32@natashya.eden.com> Reply-To: aubrey@eden.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Comments: Authenticated sender is Original-To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.52) Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com We are in the midst of porting a large collection of CGIs to NT and have found the gnu-win32 b17 utilities very helpful. However, some nagging problems with environment variables are causing us major headaches. First, env.exe does not work as advertised. Specifically, it appears to be missing the full fuunctionality it has in UNIX, i.e. env [ option ]... [ name=value ]... [ command [ args ]... ] using env to report environment settings works fine. Setting several name=value pairs also seems to work fine except that those settings are not acually maintained when [ command [ args ]... ] is executed. neither are they maintained for any further commands or programs executed. For example, assume your current environment looks like: FOO=garbage BAR=cleanup and you run a simple script like this to show the environment, modify a few settings, and then display them: env ; env FOO=testing BAR=this env In UNIX, this would produce something like FOO=garbage BAR=cleanup FOO=testing BAR=this Under gnu-win32 bash this does not work and will return FOO=garbage BAR=cleanup FOO=garbage BAR=cleanup The strange thing about this is that export works correctly, so that a modified script like: env ; export FOO=testing ; export BAR=this ; env will produce the correct results. It appears that the problem is not limited env.exe but is a much deeper bug that may be related to problems in popen(). We have several CGIs that use popen() and setenv(), but under NT gnu-win32 these functions do not appear to work correctly, meaning that we cannot spawn external processes that have an environment different from the parent. Are we missing something simple? Has anyone else encountered this problem? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Aubrey McAuley ---- Fineep ---- /---------------------------------------------------------------------\ | The Eden Matrix Online Service Adhesive Media, Inc. | | Web URL http://www.eden.com 101 W.6th,#210, Austin, TX 78701 | | voice: 512-478-9900, x201 dialup: 512-478-9963 | \---------------------------------------------------------------------/ - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".