[Bug 8924] Problem passing environment variables into php.exe

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8924

--- Comment #31 from jvlad   2009-10-02 15:21:30 ---
I'm sorry if what I reported is still not clear.

It's indeed hard to reproduce. If you didn't change anything, it should be
possible to find combination. I hope with full wine code compiled with debug
info, it would be easier to find the origin of the problem.

What I reported is basicly outlined below:

1) environment block is allocated say at address 0x700000
2) program gets some environment variables using getenv(). It's known that
getenv() returns pointer to static buffer. So the program does not bother to
copy the returned strings. Say, it gets 2 pointers to 0x701000 and 0x701100
3) program makes some changes to the environment block and allocates some new
variables.
4) it seems that at some point (after some modifications per p.2) wine
reallocates whole the environment block. Say, not the block is allocated at
0x800000. What did happen to the pointers returned per p.1 0x701000 and
0x701100? Nothing, absolutely. They still point to the same strings, now in
fried memory, and the memory itself is still not used so the values are exactly
the same as before. 
It's not enough to reallocate the environment block, it's necessary to get the
released block allocated for something else. Then the pointers will point to
bogus data.
Perhaps you know it better how to use wine's memory manager and get all the
fried blocks filled up with somekind of fillers, like MS fills with 0xBAADF00D
when compiled with debug CRT. In this case you'll see dangling pointers right
after block is reallocated.

Please let me know if anything remained unclear.