Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/02/12/06:58:37
On Feb 12 08:44, John Morrison wrote:
> On Sat, February 11, 2006 8:41 pm, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > We're
> > just trying go figure out if removing the ;; translation will affect
> > many people. We're not looking to add things to the PATH.
> >
> > There is a tradeoff here and I don't believe that we really know what
> > the implications are. You can speculate that thousands of people are
> > affected by the ;; problem but we haven't had very many complaints about
> > this and certainly people who are relying on ;; are not going to be
> > sending email here since Cygwin is working as they expect.
> >
> > Also, while skipping empty elements is a trivial operation, it is not
> > without cost. Every time that we have to guard the user against
> > something like this, we add another nail to the "cygwin is slow" coffin.
>
> Would a reasonable solution would be to make the PATH environment variable
> a special case and parse it when set? (Appologies if this isn't a
> reasonable solution)
Er... how does this match the question? %PATH% always exists and so
it has always to be parsed to create $PATH.
Corinna
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