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Re: socket() call failing?
On Aug 19 11:31, Jay Fenlason wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 12:00:49AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> > Does the parent process reduce the environment to some bare minimum?
> > Check if the child process still has $SYSTEMROOT set.
>
> It has a function called safe_env() which strips out everything except
> TZ and (optionally) PATH. Modifying it to not strip SYSTEMROOT
> allowed Amanda to back up my test directory. Tonight I'll see if it
> can now back up everything. Then I'll say that it works.
>
> Are there any other environment variables that it's dangerous to
> strip?
Not that I'm aware of. And actually I have no idea why the WinSock DLL
is adamant to have $SYSTEMROOT set, instead of just using the
GetWindowsDirectory() function.
Corinna
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