[SOLVED] Check for environment variable in another process?

Check for environment variable in another process?

In Windows, is there a way to check for the existence of an environment variable for another process? Just need to check existence, not necessarily get value.

I need to do this from code.

Solution

If you know the virtual address at which the environment is stored, you can use OpenProcess and ReadProcessMemory to read the environment out of the other process. However, to find the virtual address, you'll need to poke around in the Thread Information Block of one of the process' threads.

To get that, you'll need to call GetThreadContext() after calling SuspendThread(). But in order to call those, you need a thread handle, which you can get by calling CreateToolhelp32Snapshot with the TH32CS_SNAPTHREAD flag to create a snapshot of the process, Thread32First to get the thread ID of the first thread in the process, and OpenThread to get a handle to the thread.