[Bug 8924] Problem passing environment variables into php.exe

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8924





--- Comment #33 from jvlad <dmda at yandex.ru>  2009-10-03 01:54:44 ---
> Apps should not save the pointer returned by getenv().

Maybe you're right. But I didn't find any documents specifying how long such
pointers can be used. Seems MSVCRT leaves all previously allocated environment
blocks intact, so the pointers can be used for whole the process lifetime. 

If you take a look at the php.exe sources (that's the application I talked
about from the beginning of this issue), you'll find that they are calling
getenv and keep the pointers for relatively short period - the startup. It
reads all the values keeping the pointers, adds new values, then uses them all
See init_request_info() in cgi_main.c:

static void init_request_info(TSRMLS_D)
{
    char *env_script_filename = sapi_cgibin_getenv("SCRIPT_FILENAME",0
TSRMLS_CC);
    char *env_path_translated = sapi_cgibin_getenv("PATH_TRANSLATED",0
TSRMLS_CC);
^^^^^^^^^ reads the pointers

            if (env_path_translated) {
                _sapi_cgibin_putenv("ORIG_PATH_TRANSLATED",env_path_translated
TSRMLS_CC);
            }
            if (env_path_info) {
                _sapi_cgibin_putenv("ORIG_PATH_INFO",env_path_info TSRMLS_CC);
            }
            if (env_script_name) {
                _sapi_cgibin_putenv("ORIG_SCRIPT_NAME",env_script_name
TSRMLS_CC);
            }
            if (env_script_filename) {
                _sapi_cgibin_putenv("ORIG_SCRIPT_FILENAME",env_script_filename
TSRMLS_CC);
            }
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
updates the environment

            if (script_path_translated && stat( script_path_translated, &st )
== -1 ) {
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
then uses the pointers



And it all works fine under windows.
It this is a "bug" in MSVCRT that it preserves old block intact after it
allocates new buffer for the environment, this bug should be reproduced in wine
(IMHO).
(Still it's my assumption that MSVCRT works this way and does not free the
blocks, I didn't try to neither reengineer it nor learn its sources)

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