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Date:	Fri, 11 May 2012 12:56:43 +0400
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To:	Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!

> That has nothing to do with Cygwin.  This is just how the environment is
> handled in general.  Child processes inherit it from their parent
> processes, regardless whether on Windows or Unix.

Windows have means of notifying running processes about changes in global
environment.
It isn't really reliable, though. Only works, when you're editing environment
from the GUI, AFAIK.


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Andrey Repin (anrdaemon AT freemail DOT ru) 11.05.2012, <12:55>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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