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On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 09:04:03AM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Nevertheless I agree that the setting in an environment variable > > doesn't fit our needs in the future. Shouldn't we discuss creating > > a settings file which may override or supplement the CYGWIN environment > > variable settings? > > > > Perhaps doing away with the CYGWIN environment variable altogether. Yes, personally I strongly agree but I'm somewhat reluctant to break backwards compatibility... even if it's ugly. > > We could add a CYGWIN setting ;-) like "settings_file:<DOS-PATH>" > > and the file could contain setting=value pairs one per line: > > > > binmode=yes > > check_case=relaxed > > error_init=C:\Cygwin\bin\gdb.exe > > ntsec=yes > > smbntsec=no > > tty=yes > > > > Shouldn't this go into a /etc/cygwin.init file? This would match the > way that UNIX sets up it's user supplied initialization values. Fine with me. But I added the "settings_file:" to be careful with using POSIX paths. POSIX paths are user defined and could point to different /etc directories. Hmm, that may not be that bad... Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc.
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