crash on environment name beginning with non-ASCII char (64 bit)

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Tue Jun 6 19:15:00 GMT 2017


On May 20 22:04, Thomas Wolff wrote:
> If an environment variable is set in the Windows environment that has a name
> beginning with a non-ASCII character (e.g. "äx", value "test"),
> initialising the 64-bit cygwin dll fails:
> *** fatal error - internal error reading the windows environment - too many
> environment variables?

Thanks for th report.  I applied a patch and uploaded a new developer
snapshot to https://cygwin.com/snapshots/.  Please test.


Thanks,
Corinna

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