Review request for 7034570 - java.lang.Runtime.exec(String[] cmd, String[] env) can not work properly if SystemRoot not inherited

[Michael McMahon]

Alan Bateman wrote:
> Michael McMahon wrote:
>>
>> On Windows, we are ensuring that SystemRoot will at a minimum always 
>> be set.
> Don't you still have the corner case where Runtime.exec is invoked 
> with an empty array and SystemRoot is not in the environment (launched 
> by an older JDK for example)? In that case we can't make SystemRoot 
> available to the child process either.
>
Yes, that's right.

Thanks,
Michael