Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-jakarta-ant-dev-archive@apache.org Received: (qmail 16278 invoked from network); 14 Feb 2002 16:59:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nagoya.betaversion.org) (192.18.49.131) by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 14 Feb 2002 16:59:12 -0000 Received: (qmail 11740 invoked by uid 97); 14 Feb 2002 16:59:07 -0000 Delivered-To: qmlist-jakarta-archive-ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 11719 invoked by uid 97); 14 Feb 2002 16:59:06 -0000 Mailing-List: contact ant-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Help: List-Post: List-Id: "Ant Developers List" Reply-To: "Ant Developers List" Delivered-To: mailing list ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 11708 invoked from network); 14 Feb 2002 16:59:06 -0000 Message-ID: <3C6BECD7.4080205@liberate.com> Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 11:59:03 -0500 From: Peter Janes Organization: Liberate Technologies Canada Ltd. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.8+) Gecko/20020211 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ant Developers List Subject: Re: Any Windows experts out there???? References: <20020214163628.45140.qmail@web12308.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N Kevin Toomey wrote: > That jog anything? > > time to start digging into Execute.java's getProcEnvironment() > method???????? I don't know anything about the Windows internals, but there's a process that behaves similarly in UNIX--"cron". It specifically removes everything but a very limited path from the environment (actually, it never runs the profile scripts in the first place). It's possible Windows is doing something similar, to deal with potential security issues (you don't want a privileged binary running things from random paths, for example). -- fix, n., v. What one does when a problem has been reported too many times to be ignored. --The New Hacker's Dictionary, 3rd ed. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: For additional commands, e-mail: