On Wed, 30 Mar 2011, Brian Raven wrote: >On Wed, 30 Mar 2011, Christian Walde wrote: >> At first i thought that was the case too. But the fact that the perl >> executable knows that value is in %ENV makes me think it's something >> else going on, as i'd expect that to be empty as well then. > > Maybe so, but spawning a sub process with large environment variables > does seem to cause problems. For example, running the following ...
Yes, that is a limitation of CreateProcessA(): | CreateProcessA fails if the total size of the environment block for | the process exceeds 32,767 characters. I've updated Christian's bug report with this information. Cheers, -Jan _______________________________________________ ActivePerl mailing list ActivePerl@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
