Thanks for the info on Win32::Env and the Broadcast function. It seems to do the trick most of the time.

We are trying to use the Win32::Env Broadcast function. It seems to work fine in most cases.

We have found one machine where the function hangs. It has been trying for 8 minutes now and will not complete.

The test case we are using is with perl version 5.8.8 822 from activestate. I installed Win32::Env 0.03 a few weeks ago.

This is the script we are trying. It failed in a much larger script and we found this fails also.

use Win32:Env;
Broadcast();

Do you know why this might happen? It there some sort of debug that can be enabled to see what it is trying to do?

In reply to Re^2: how do you propagate Tie::Registry modifications to the system environment by warrendodge
in thread how do you propagate Tie::Registry modifications to the system environment by warrendodge

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