Retrieving per-process environment block?

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Wed Nov 30 11:36:00 GMT 2016


On Nov 29 19:27, Andrey Repin wrote:
> 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.

Nope.


Corinna

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