Merge pull request #12928 from n1hility/win-env

Implement env parsing on Windows

1 files changed, 25 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/pkg/env/env_windows.go b/pkg/env/env_windows.go
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index 000000000..5df08fadc
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+++ b/pkg/env/env_windows.go
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+package env
+
+// ParseSlice parses the specified slice and transforms it into an environment
+// map.
+func ParseSlice(s []string) (map[string]string, error) {
+	env := make(map[string]string, len(s))
+	for _, e := range s {
+		if len(e) > 0 && e[0] == '=' {
+			// The legacy Windows CMD command interpreter uses a hack, where to emulate
+			// DOS semantics, it uses an illegal (by windows definition) env name for
+			// state storage to avoid conlficting with user defined env names. This is
+			// used to preserve drive letter paths. E.g., typing c: from another drive
+			// will remember the last CWD because CMD stores it in an env named "=C:".
+			// Since these are illegal, they are filtered from standard user access but
+			// are still available in the underlying win32 API calls. Since they have
+			// zero value to a container, we filter as well.
+			continue
+		}
+
+		if err := parseEnv(env, e); err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+	}
+	return env, nil
+}