Retrieving per-process environment block?

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Nov 30 11:48, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Nov 30 10:15, Peter Rosin wrote:
> > On 2016-11-30 04:00, Eliot Moss wrote:
> > > On 11/29/2016 7:28 PM, Herbert Stocker wrote:
> > > 
> > >> Or we simply copy the variables unconverted to the Windows environment
> > >> block, as the Windows env block is not used for anything else - up to
> > >> now it is not updated at all.
> > > 
> > > Maybe we could stash them inside one large variable?  Would that help
> > > at all?  (It does demand a quoting convention, but since this is all
> > > internal stuff, that may not be too hard.)
> > 
> > I believe this is a dead end. The Windows environment block has an
> > unacceptable size limit which is circumvented by the internal Cygwin
> > handling. Since this is about exposing said Cygwin environment, it
> > would simply not work for big environments.
> 
> ACK

Uhm, sorry, not ACK, this is nonsense.  The Windows env is not limited
to 32K characters, only the CreateProcess call is, unless you use the
option CREATE_UNICODE_ENVIRONMENT.  In that case, you can pass bigger
envs.  Cygwin uses it, too, when calling native Windows processes.


Corinna

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