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Date:	Fri, 20 Apr 2001 08:03:57 -0400
From:	Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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To:	"Craveiro, Marco" <Marco DOT Craveiro AT solvay DOT com>
CC:	"'Corinna Vinschen'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject:	Re: environment question: gdb and PWD
References:	<229D7C0FE0BED311A0E800805F0DD47176CB5B AT wn01ex DOT wn DOT gb DOT solvay DOT com>

"Craveiro, Marco" wrote:
> 
> hello Corinna,
> 
> thanks for your help. this is probably a newbie related problem... It
> appears it is to do with where I start gdb from: if I do it from bash it
> gives me all the environment variables, if I do it from emacs - with emacs
> starting from bash - PWD and a few others are missing but some are there.
> I'm using NT emacs.
> 

The problem is that the NTEMACS isn't a Cygwin program and therefore
doesn't inherit the parent's environment.  Gdb on the other hand does
inherit the parent processes environment but not the grand-parent's
environment.  This isn't a bug with either gdb or Cygwin.

Earnie.

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