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From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
To: Erik Bray <erik.m.bray@gmail.com>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Retrieving per-process environment block?
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 18:02:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2925977.20161129192741@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOTD34bPTUkKiHSmqvczz6juePBD=6PyzabDFfHpYL_cFzyf9A@mail.gmail.com>

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.


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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Tuesday, November 29, 2016 19:26:20

Sorry for my terrible english...


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  reply	other threads:[~2016-11-29 16:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-17 18:05 Erik Bray
2016-11-17 18:11 ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-11-29 15:28   ` Erik Bray
2016-11-29 16:01     ` cyg Simple
2016-11-30 11:03       ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-11-29 16:35     ` Eliot Moss
2016-11-29 17:42       ` Erik Bray
2016-11-29 18:02         ` Andrey Repin [this message]
2016-11-30  4:28           ` Herbert Stocker
2016-11-30 10:43             ` Eliot Moss
2016-11-30 10:47               ` Peter Rosin
2016-11-30 10:47                 ` Erik Bray
2016-11-30 12:29                 ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-11-30 12:36                   ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-11-30 11:36           ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-11-30 11:06       ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-11-30 10:48     ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-11-30 14:49       ` Erik Bray
2016-11-30 15:04         ` Corinna Vinschen

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