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Date:	Thu, 8 Aug 2002 23:23:49 -0400
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Program Options vs. cygwin env problem
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On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 10:18:45PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>Warning: WAG.
>I may be completely off the mark here, but I think I recall reading that
>the cygwin dll only reads the system environment once upon startup, and
>that to have any changes in the environment take effect you need to reboot
>to force a reload of the cygwin dll.  Could the same apply to the registry
>value?

Both the CYGWIN environment variable and registry options are read at process
startup time.

cgf

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