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> 
> So making the primitives return ByteArray instances instead of ByteString 
> should be safe enough :).
> But this is in my opinion clearly a hack instead of fixing the real problem, 
> and we have to be careful to guard such patterns with comments everywhere 
> explaining why the bytearray conversion is really needed there…

Guillermo what is the correct way to do it?

> Would it be helpful to have getenv primitives that answer ByteArray
> instead, and to let all conversion (including in OSProcess) be done in
> the image?
> 
> Well, personally I would like that getenv/setenv and getcwd setcwd support 
> are not in a plugin but as a basic service provided by the vm.
> 
> Cheers,
> Guille
>  
> 
> Thanks,
> Dave
> 
> 
> 
> 
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>    
> Guille Polito
> Research Engineer
> 
> Centre de Recherche en Informatique, Signal et Automatique de Lille
> CRIStAL - UMR 9189
> French National Center for Scientific Research - http://www.cnrs.fr 
> <http://www.cnrs.fr/>
> 
> Web: http://guillep.github.io <http://guillep.github.io/>
> Phone: +33 06 52 70 66 13


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