Forcing SYSTEMROOT (opinions needed)

Parker, Ron rdparker@butlermfg.com
Wed May 2 16:55:00 GMT 2001


> So we have to trade the possibility of someone wanting 
> complete control of
> his environment versus the possibility of someone not 
> specifying SYSTEMROOT
> but needing it for the program that is about to be run.
> 
> Should I flip a coin?

Since the Winsock dll is dynamically loaded via LoadLibrary, would it be
possible to fill out SYSTEMROOT just prior to the load?



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