Hi all, For a quick bit of background, I'm working on porting the highly useful psutil [1] Python library to Cygwin. This has proved an interesting exercise, as much of the functionality of psutil works on Cygwin through existing POSIX interfaces, and a handful of Linux-specific interfaces as well. But there are some bits that simply don't map at all.
The one I'm struggling with right now is retrieving Cygwin environment variables for a process (under inspection--i.e. not listing a process's environment from within that process which is obviously trivial). I've looked at every route I could conceive of but as far as I can tell this is currently impossible. That's fine for now--I simply disable that functionality in psutil. But it is unfortunate, though, since the information is there. There are a couple avenues I could see to this. The most "obvious" (to me) being to implement /proc/<pid>/environ. I would be willing to provide a patch for this if it would be accepted. Is there some particular non-obvious hurdle to this that it hasn't been implemented? Obviously there are security implications--the /proc/<pid>/environ should only be readable to the process's owner, but that is already within Cygwin's capabilities, and works for other /proc files. Thanks, Erik [1] https://pythonhosted.org/psutil/ -- 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