Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/05/12/15:11:26
On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 11:59:15AM -0700, David Rothenberger wrote:
>On 5/12/2005 11:54 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 08:23:34PM +0200, Michael Schaap wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>Attached is a patch to fix cygstart behaviour when running under "mount
>>>-X". Cygstart now ensures that the Windows environment is synchronized
>>>with the Cygwin one.
>>>(For more details, see the recent thread: "Fixing strace and cygcheck so
>>>that they work with mount -X")
>>>
>>>Chuck, can you, at your convenience, apply this patch and release a new
>>>version of cygutils?
>>
>>Didn't we come to the conclusion that you shouldn't be adding PATH to
>>the environment? I don't see anything which does this in your patch.
>
>It's done indirectly by not copying cygwin variables that already exist
>in the Windows environment. Is it safe to assume that PATH will always
>already been in the Windows environment given a cygexec invocation? If
>not, we'll need to copy it and convert it to Windows form.
No, you're right. I think I should stop posting for a few days until my
cold clears up. The inability to breath or sleep is making me miss things.
So, apologies for missing this.
cgf
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