Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/07/27/04:56:57
On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 06:32:59PM -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> You should be aware that certain keywords in the CYGWIN variable, among
> them "ntsec," are only examined when the Cygwin1.dll initially loads (i.e.,
> every time a Cygwin application starts up and the Cygwin1.dll shared
> library was not already loaded; that can occur any number of times between
> reboots or logins).
>
> In particular this means that no Cygwin code or script can meaningfully set
> the "ntsec" keyword in the CYGWIN variable--it must be supplied by the
> Windows environment. The usual way of doing this is to use the System
> control panel's Environment setting function.
That's not right. It only holds for some of the CYGWIN settings as
tty vs. notty which would be somewhat problematic. E. g. a nontsec
application can start a ntsec app and vice versa.
Corinna
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