diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog b/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
index 9fe1b0a70..4ef024980 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2005-09-21  Christopher Faylor  <cgf@timesys.com>
+
+	* cygthread.cc (cygthread::operator new): Just use getenv() to look for
+	CYGWIN_FREERANGE_NOCHECK since the Windows environment may be truncated
+	by being previously execed.
+
 2005-09-20  Christopher Faylor  <cgf@timesys.com>
 
 	* spawn.cc (av::fixup): Just blindly run any file if it has a .bat or
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/cygthread.cc b/winsup/cygwin/cygthread.cc
index 62d64705d..385995382 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/cygthread.cc
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/cygthread.cc
@@ -153,11 +153,10 @@ new (size_t)
       }
 
 #ifdef DEBUGGING
-  char buf[1024];
-  if (!GetEnvironmentVariable ("CYGWIN_FREERANGE_NOCHECK", buf, sizeof (buf)))
-    api_fatal ("Overflowed cygwin thread pool");
+  if (!getenv ("CYGWIN_FREERANGE_NOCHECK"))
+    api_fatal ("overflowed cygwin thread pool");
   else
-    thread_printf ("Overflowed cygwin thread pool");
+    thread_printf ("overflowed cygwin thread pool");
 #endif
 
   info = freerange ();	/* exhausted thread pool */