On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 21:42:47 +0200, Jan Dubois <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Mar 2011, Brian Raven wrote: >> On Wed, 30 Mar 2011, Christian Walde wrote: >>> At first i thought that was the case too. But the fact that the perl >>> executable knows that value is in %ENV makes me think it's something >>> else going on, as i'd expect that to be empty as well then. >> >> Maybe so, but spawning a sub process with large environment variables >> does seem to cause problems. For example, running the following ... > > Yes, that is a limitation of CreateProcessA(): > > | CreateProcessA fails if the total size of the environment block for > | the process exceeds 32,767 characters. > > I've updated Christian's bug report with this information. On Win XP, which Brian's example demonstrates this is correct, however on Windows 7, which is what I'm using, the situation is different. I've updated the bug with a clarification. :) -- With regards, Christian Walde _______________________________________________ ActivePerl mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
