replacing getenv/setenv on Windows - ticket 2636

[Jeffrey Hutzelman]

On Thursday, September 21, 2006 10:40:21 AM -0400 Jeffrey Altman 
<jaltman at mit.edu> wrote:

> I would like to bring this topic back to the foreground.
> As a refresher, the Kerberos libraries and applications make
> extensive use of getenv() and setenv() for manipulating the
> environment.  On Windows this is problem because the getenv
> and setenv CRT functions do not access the real environment
> of the application.  Instead they manipulate a private
> implementation of environ[].

Note that this is effectively what UNIX systems do as well.  The 
environment is not shared; it is copied from parent to child as one of the 
arguemnts to execve(2).

-- Jeff