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Re: Environment variables in hook scripts?

From: Branko Čibej <brane_at_wandisco.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 18:41:33 +0100

On 21.03.2013 18:26, Philip Martin wrote:
> Philip Martin <philip.martin_at_wandisco.com> writes:
>
>> So it seems that there is a bug in apr_proc_create on Windows.
>> Subversion might be able to work around this bug by explicitly passing
>> an non-null, empty environment to apr_proc_create.
> If Subversion were to start doing this it would probably break lots of
> (most?) existing hook scripts on Windows.
>

However it would avoid a possible security issue or two as well. IMO our
documentation is correct and we should fix the code to behave as documented.

-- Brane

-- 
Branko Čibej
Director of Subversion | WANdisco | www.wandisco.com
Received on 2013-03-21 18:42:07 CET

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