Re: Thread Injection + Cygwin problems

[mwoehlke <mwoehlke at tibco dot com>]

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 06:11:57PM -0500, mwoehlke wrote:
> > Kaveh Goudarzi wrote:
> > > I've written a program to detect the invocation of processes and then
> > > inject them with a remote thread in the hope of getting the cmdLine/cwd
> > > and environment variables of the running process.
> > [snip]
> > > I'm not sure how to approach the problem so any advice would be greatly
> > > appreciated.
> > >
> > > Is there an obvious reason why attempting to invoke cygwin calls such
> > > as getenv() in an injected thread might result in crashes?  I've also
> > > tried cygwin_internal(CW_SYNC_WINENV) with the same result.  I'm
> > > running Windows XP and have tried the 20060614 snapshot with the same
> > > result.
> > There are known problems with thread injection and Cygwin.  Are you
> > using the latest cygwin.dll snapshot?
>
> He said he was running the latest version of the snapshot (I put back
> the part that you snipped above).

Missed that; my apologies.

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Matthew
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