The GetCommandLine/WinMain "problem"
Pierre A. Humblet
Pierre.Humblet@ieee.org
Wed Apr 5 20:14:00 GMT 2006
> The result of calling GetEnvironment* (and any related functions) should
> be consistent whether the cygwin process is called from another cygwin
> process or not. If there is no cygwin environment (yet) then, of
> course, we should fall back to the windows environment.
>
> If we go down this path, that is how it will be implemented.
Great. While you are at it, can you get getenv() to work "reasonably"
before there is a cygwin environment (without calling malloc) ?
Then the cygwin specific code could be ripped out of dmalloc.
I was going to ITP dmalloc, but I won't until this issue is stable.
Pierre
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