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Dave Korn wrote:
> If they aren't from the same
> process, they cannot be updating the same copy of the environment, since each
> process has its own

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms682653(VS.85).aspx

  MSDN reference: hopefully this should clear up the details about how
environment blocks behave.  Note particularly that changes are never
propagated back *up* to the global system environment; you have to write to
the registry to change them, and that is indeed properly serialized.

    cheers,
      DaveK

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