Daniel Colascione writes:<br><br>&gt; After another reading of cmdproxy.c, I also see that the<br>&gt; CreateProcess path also doesn&#39;t expand environment %variable%<br>&gt; references, and that doesn&#39;t fall back to cmd if the command<br>

&gt; to be executed contains them.  While we could expand these<br>&gt; variables, doing so would move us even closer to<br>&gt; reimplementing half of cmd.exe.<br><br>You are exaggerating a great deal.  It is a single function call, ExpandEnvironmentStrings, documented at <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724265%28v=vs.85%29.aspx">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724265%28v=vs.85%29.aspx</a>.  Patching cmdproxy.c to use ExpandEnvironmentStrings before calling CreateProcess would add at most 10 lines of code.  This is by no means &quot;reimplementing half of cmd.exe.&quot;<br>

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