[BUG] environment not inherited by fork

Sergey Okhapkin sos@prospect.com.ru
Sun Jun 15 06:57:00 GMT 1997


Chris Faylor wrote:
> The following code illustrates a problem with cygwin.dll b18 (the Cygnus
> release version).
> 
> #include <stdio.h>
> main(int argc, char **argv)
> {
> putenv("FOO=BAR");
> printf("parent FOO=%s\n", getenv("FOO"));
> if (fork() > 0) {
>     wait(0);
>     exit(0);
> }
> printf("child FOO=%s\n", getenv("FOO"));
> exit(0);
> }
> 
> It erroneously produces the following output:
> 
> parent FOO=BAR
> child FOO=(null)
> 

The same program with the patch I've posted today:

E:\usr\src>t.exe
parent FOO=BAR
child FOO=BAR

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