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Today we map OS-GETENV to the JVM System.getProperty() which does not real from real environment variables, but instead reads properties created by the JVM or passed to the JVM at instantiation using the -D command line parameter.

But most Progress apps actually rely heavily upon child processes for integration with other apps and the OS itself. This often means that real environment variables are in use and are needed to make everything work.

We already have the native code written to properly read environment vars directly in the client process. Switch out the System.getProperty() approach in FileSystemDaemon.getProperty() and go to an approach that first attempts to read the environment using native code and then if not found, reads from System.getProperty() as a fall-back.