On 6 Aug 2007, at 11:19, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On Aug 5, 2007, at 11:08, Brian Krusic wrote:
>
>>
> Yes, the env is empty on UNIX-like systems, but I've heard it
> reported here before that on Windows the env is not empty. I'd call
> that a bug; Subversion should empty the env on Windows systems too,
> to be consistent, and since the Book says the env is empty for
> security reasons.
>
> Can we agree that this is a bug? I couldn't find one filed in the
> issue tracker.
If it is a bug, it's an APR bug. Subversion passes a null
environment pointer to apr_proc_create and my cursory inspection of
the Windows and Unix versions of this function is that the semantics
are different.
On Unix, if the environment pointer is null, a pointer to an empty
array is passed to the exec call (i.e. an array initialised thus:
{ NULL }). In the Windows version of the call, it appears that a
null pointer is passed to CreateProcW. Here's the Microsoft
documentation for the environment parameter:
"[in] A pointer to the environment block for the new process. If this
parameter is NULL, the new process uses the environment of the
calling process."
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms682425.aspx
>
>
>> The actual problem was that Apache is normally run as the SYSTEM
>> user so I changed it to run as a user having access privs to the
>> repo and it worked.
>
> I'm glad you got the problem resolved.
>
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Received on Tue Aug 7 03:48:19 2007