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RE: Bash login breaks if too many environment variables are set
- From: "Hommersom, Fred" <fhommers at ugs dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 17:38:06 +0200
- Subject: RE: Bash login breaks if too many environment variables are set
>
> From your strace output, it looks to me like windows itself is
returning garbage when we ask it for the list of environment variables.
>
>If that is the case, we can guard against that but we can't make the
passed in environment useful, unfortunately.
Is it possible that 'asking for the environment' makes an error in some
mapping activity?
Anyway, a clear error is better as a garbled environment.
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