[m-dev.] .NET back-end test results

[Tyson Dowd]

On 22-Oct-2002, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> On 22-Oct-2002, Tyson Dowd <trd at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > On 20-Oct-2002, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > > I've run the tests in the `il' grade and analyzed the results.
> > > Here are the results of my analysis.
> > 
> > First of all, nice work.
> > 
> > > N3
> > > - tests/general/environment fails:
> > >   io__set_environment_variable NYI
> > 
> > This is gonna be hard to fix... every time I have looked there is no
> > way to set environment variables in .NET.  There is a way to get them,
> > but no method that will set them.
> 
> This will require platform-specific code, I think.

Yep.... strangely it exists in the Win32 API... maybe they didn't want
to think about possible security implications of being able to set
environment variables.

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