Retrieving per-process environment block?

Andrey Repin anrdaemon@yandex.ru
Tue Nov 29 18:02:00 GMT 2016


Greetings, Erik Bray!

> Thanks for the reply.  The issue here isn't getting the Windows
> process environment--that can be done, albeit trickily [1].  While
> it's true there are security implications, in this case that is
> handled at the OpenProcess call required to obtain a handle to the
> process.  It's true you can't just read the environment from a process
> you don't have permission to.

> The issue here though is reading the Cygwin process's environment
> which is separate from its Windows environment, and the above
> technique is inapplicable.

Update Windows environment block when Cygwin environment is updated.


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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Tuesday, November 29, 2016 19:26:20

Sorry for my terrible english...


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