"Gerrit P. Haase" wrote: > That works, thanks for pointing this out, however, lighttpd should > simply give back an error instead of burning my cpu.
I agree. > > > This sounds suspiciously like the "SYSTEMROOT being removed from the > > environment" problem. > > Hmmm, SYSTEMROOT: > $ set | grep SYSTEMROOT > SYSTEMROOT='C:\WINNT' That's from a normal shell prompt though, right? It must be set in the environment of the CGI script that's forked from the lighttpd. Try a simple CGI that just runs "printenv" and see if it's set there. The reason it seems to come up in CGI scripts is that often the environment is cleansed of all but certain permitted variables, and it seems that SYSTEMROOT is the casualty of this. It's a situation particular to Cygwin, as win32 native code would know not to remove it, whereas its meaningless to stuff written for posix/unix. > Doesn't a cygwin application need to know about CYGWIN_ROOT instead of > SYSTEMROOT? > > I'll see if I can find the thread about it in the archives. I've never heard of the CYGWIN_ROOT variable before. I think the problem is that when you go to use a socket function, eventually the win32 winsock functions get called, and they depend on having SYSTEMROOT set in the environment. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/