Dave Korn wrote: > If they aren't from the same > process, they cannot be updating the same copy of the environment, since each > process has its own
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms682653(VS.85).aspx MSDN reference: hopefully this should clear up the details about how environment blocks behave. Note particularly that changes are never propagated back *up* to the global system environment; you have to write to the registry to change them, and that is indeed properly serialized. cheers, DaveK -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple