From:	sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin)
Subject:	RE: Filename globbing with non-Cygwin parents...
24 Jul 1998 22:41:56 -0700 :
Message-ID:	<01BDB6F9.65CE4210.cygnus.gnu-win32@WOLF>
To:	"gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com" <gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>,
	"'Robertson, Jason V'"
	<jason DOT v DOT robertson AT intel DOT com>

Robertson, Jason V wrote:
> I just did more investigating and I think I understand why non-Cygwin
> parents will cause children to glob the commandline arguments.  If the 
PID
> environment variable were still used in b19.1 (it's not - correct?) 
instead
> of the shared_info structure I could fake out children that I'm a Cygnus
> application.

The PID environment variable isn't used. Cygwin's start-up code compares 
win32 PID of the application with the ones stored in cygwin's process 
table. If no match was found, the application thinks that it was started by 
non-cygwin parent and performs globbing.

> Or is there a better way to turn off globbing in children?  I would also

Set environment variable CYGWIN32 to "noglob".

> need a way for a non-Cygwin application to determine if its parent is a
> Cygwin application.
>

I know no way.

--
Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
Piscataway, NJ

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