From: sos@prospect.com.ru (Sergey Okhapkin) Subject: RE: [BUG] environment not inherited by fork 15 Jun 1997 06:37:51 -0700 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <01BC796D.5088A5A0.cygnus.gnu-win32@sos> Original-To: "gnu-win32@cygnus.com" , "'cgf@bbc.com'" Encoding: 21 TEXT Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Chris Faylor wrote: > This is due to the fact that there are two environ pointers being maintained: > one is in the "user space" the other is in "dll space". The one in "dll space" > is the one that is updated by putenv() but fork overwrites this with the > "user space" one when it copies stuff. I think that, if possible, the > routines in the .dll that manipulate the environment should only be using > the environ table in the user space. Trying to keep the two pointers in > sync would otherwise be very difficult. It's in my todo list on the first place now:-) > > This unfortunately would require, I think, changes to the newlib code > to accomodate the gnuwin32 code. It's possible to fix this bug without modifying newlib code. -- Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos Moscow, Russia Looking for a job - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".