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This seems inconsistent behaviour to me. Some running processes reload the environment and others don't. Maybe in Windows they can get away with it, but that
by lottin 11y ago
This seems inconsistent behaviour to me. Some running processes reload the environment and others don't. Maybe in Windows they can get away with it, but that doesn't mean it's a good idea.
- darklajid 11y agoTo be fair: The Windows way is kinda consistent: If the environment definition was changed, everyone gets a window message. It's just that no one but explorer.exe cares about that and reacts, as far as I'm aware (Raymond Chen had a recent article mentioning exactly this). So, the OS tells everyone 'Hey, you totally could update your environment'. But your running instance of Skype or whatever just doesn't need to care.
- zastrowm 11y agoRaymond Chen article for anyone that is interested: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2015/09/15/10641604.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2015/09/15/10641...
- majkinetor 11y agoI think that reacting to system change is opt-in.