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case-sensitiveness of environment
- To: cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com
- Subject: case-sensitiveness of environment
- From: egor duda <deo at logos-m dot ru>
- Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 11:19:11 +0400
- Organization: deo
- References: <27138147024.20010416101728@logos-m.ru>
- Reply-To: egor duda <cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com>
Hi!
Monday, 16 April, 2001 egor duda deo@logos-m.ru wrote:
ed> if cygwin environment contains both 'Path' and 'PATH', creating
ed> windows environment from it causes crash due to reallocating memory
ed> object which is externally referenced. this patch fixes that.
ed> i feel that we need a bit more tweaking with environment to deal with
ed> it case-insensitiveness under win32.
hmm, it looks like there's a little we can do here besides just fixing
a crash. as long as application can manipulate environment directly
via 'environ' variable, cygwin1.dll can't guarantee that we won't have
both 'Path' and 'PATH' in the environment.
Egor. mailto:deo@logos-m.ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19