From: jqb@netcom.com (Jim Balter) Subject: Re: Sorting environment 11 Apr 1997 21:26:30 -0700 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <334EAF09.2E26.cygnus.gnu-win32@netcom.com> References: <199704111327.JAA29905@just.smarts.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (WinNT; I) Original-To: Ken Estes Original-CC: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Ken Estes wrote: > To ensure that these simple conditions are met the environment must > be sorted or then environment will enter an inconsistent state as a > result of OS interfaces. This means that the quotation from the > manual is correct: > > > To do so, the application must explicitly create the =X environment > > variable strings, get them into alphabetical order (because > > Windows NT and Windows 95 use a sorted environment), and then put > > them into the environment block specified by > > The application MUST get them into alphabetical order. Yes, I agree that it must, and spawn.cc must be fixed to do so. Nonetheless, this parenthetical comment, which is not to be found elsewhere that I know of, does not constitute proper documentation by any professional standard. -- - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".