From ee65c0abbac297007d5976098e75b37f241bc89d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alain Magloire <alain@qnx.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 15:28:58 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] PR 50846 Clone the properties class.

---
 core/org.eclipse.cdt.core/ChangeLog                       | 8 ++++++++
 .../org/eclipse/cdt/utils/spawner/EnvironmentReader.java  | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core/ChangeLog b/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core/ChangeLog
index 559cc8c1c16..92171d21524 100644
--- a/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core/ChangeLog
+++ b/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+2004-01-29 Alain Magloire
+
+	PR 50846 from Alex Chapiro.
+	Clone the return properties class so to not be affected
+	by external changes.
+
+	* utils/org/eclipse/cdt/utils/spawner/EnvironmentReader.java
+
 2004-01-21  Anthony Green
  
  	PR 50397.
diff --git a/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core/utils/org/eclipse/cdt/utils/spawner/EnvironmentReader.java b/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core/utils/org/eclipse/cdt/utils/spawner/EnvironmentReader.java
index ec853a3005f..285370a6b83 100644
--- a/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core/utils/org/eclipse/cdt/utils/spawner/EnvironmentReader.java
+++ b/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core/utils/org/eclipse/cdt/utils/spawner/EnvironmentReader.java
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ public class EnvironmentReader {
 	public static Properties getEnvVars() {
 
 		if (null != envVars)
-			return envVars;
+			return (Properties)envVars.clone();
 
 		String OS = System.getProperty("os.name").toLowerCase();
 		Process p = null;
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ public class EnvironmentReader {
 			}
 		}
 		rawVars.trimToSize();
-		return envVars;
+		return (Properties)envVars.clone();
 	}
 
 	public static String getEnvVar(String key) {