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

[Alan Bateman]

Ulf Zibis wrote:
>
>
> I don't think about silently changing, I think about to *disallow to 
> set* it e.g. by the put() method, and instead retrieve it by default 
> from constructor, so it could be always read by the get() method. 
Ah, you mean the environment returned by ProcessBuilder where the spec 
does allow the Map to forbid changing certain variables. I don't see 
this working for the Runtime.exec case as we can't change these methods 
to fail if the environment includes SystemRoot. The other case is where 
the environment is initially cleared (in ProcessBuilder's class 
description it has a note suggesting to use the clear method to start a 
process with an explicit set of environment variables). All told, I 
think Michael's approach to ensure that SystemRoot is in the child 
environment is reasonable.

-Alan.