Sorting environment

[Ed Huott]

In message < 20894.9704101126@dedekind.cam.harlequin.co.uk >, Jon Thackray writes
:
>Quoting from the Oct 96 MSDN docs for CreateProcess, near the end of the
>"Remarks" section:
>
>  If the current directory on drive C is \MSVC\MFC, there is an
>  environment variable called =C: whose value is C:\MSVC\MFC. As noted in
>  the previous description of lpEnvironment, such current directory
>  information for a system's drives does not automatically propagate to a
>  new process when the CreateProcess function's lpEnvironment parameter is
>  non-NULL. An application must manually pass the current directory
>  information to the new process. To do so, the application must
>  explicitly create the =X environment variable strings, get them into
>  alphabetical order (because Windows NT and Windows 95 use a sorted
>  environment), and then put them into the environment block specified by
>  lpEnvironment. Typically, they will go at the front of the environment
>  block, due to the previously mentioned environment block sorting.

Wow!  And they call the Unix system arcane!!! :-)

<ED>
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