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Re: Add requirement for SYSTEMROOT to FAQ?
On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 10:20:53AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Oct 6 21:53, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> Didn't we resolve that the need for SYSTEMROOT in the environment should
>> be in the FAQ at some point?
>>
>> Joshua, could you add something about how SYSTEMROOT is required for proper
>> operation with winsock?
>
>That would be good.
>
>> Or, even better yet, Corinna could we force SYSTEMROOT to be used
>> somehow but masked if someone removes it from the environment?
>
>Hmm, usually applications which suffer from a missing SYSTEMROOT are
>spawned by a parent process which has explicitely created a new
>environment block for the child and then calls execvp. So the new
>child is already missing SYSTEMROOT on process startup. What about
>always adding SYSTEMROOT to the windows env created in build_env,
>if it's missing?
That's what I was thinking. And then lying about its existence if
someone queries the environment via getenv and SYSTEMROOT is "not
supposed to be there".
What an amazingly lame requirement...
cgf
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