Re: Fixing strace and cygcheck so that they work with mount -X

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>]

On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 04:47:28PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>----Original Message----
>>From: Christopher Faylor
>>Sent: 11 May 2005 16:41
>>It sounds like you need to read MSDN on CreateProcess and see what it
>>says about "lpEnvironment":
>>
>http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dllproc/base/createprocess.asp
>
>Well, among other things, it says ...
>
>" Each string is in the form:
>
>name=value
>
>Because the equal sign is used as a separator, it must not be used in
>the name of an environment variable."
>
>...  and then a little later on it also says ...
>
>" For example, there is an environment variable named =C: whose value
>is the current directory on drive C.  An application must manually pass
>the current directory information to the new process.  To do so, the
>application must explicitly create these environment variable strings,
>sort them alphabetically (because the system uses a sorted
>environment), and put them into the environment block.  "

Yeah, were you following the discussion related to this in the
gdb-patches mailing list?

Anyway, now that you've read the documentation, do you want to provide
in-depth technical help on how to construct an environment block?

cgf