I'm using Win32::Process:Create to spawn processes on Windows. I cannot use system or backticks or open because I need to have a timeout on the process (kill it if it hangs). The problem I have is that %ENV is not passed to the child process. Is there a workaround or something I'm missing?

Thanks for any piece of wisdom,

The code looks like this

[...]
$ENV{'VARIABLE'} = "whatever string";
Win32::Process::Create($ProcessObj,
                       $self->{COMMAND},
                       $self->{ARGS},
                       0,
                       'NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS',
                       $self->{CWD});
[...]
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