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Re: Truncated Environment Variables? - using Cygwin + GetEnvironmentStrings() WIN32 API

On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 03:32:55AM +0000, Eric Blake wrote:
>On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 04:12:52AM +0100, Kaveh Goudarzi wrote:
>>I'm working on an app which attempts to get the environment of running
>>cygwin apps.  It does this by running the GetEnvironmentStrings() win32
>>api call in the context of the running cygwin app (code injection).
>
>That is somewhat risky, as recent threads have discussed how windows
>update does a code injection that interferes with cygwin and deadlocks
>the processor into 100% utilization.

Actually, it is unlikely that this is as simple as "code injection
causes problems".  I was playing with this technique a while ago with
cygwin programs and I never saw the rumored 100% CPU utilization.

cgf

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