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On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 01:50:43PM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >> >> I keep seeing people who have set the CYGWIN environment variable from the bash >> shell. This causes strange problems. >> >> I wonder if it would be worthwhile to ignore the CYGWIN environment variable >> if it is set in a process that is a child of a cygwin process. >> >> The downside is that there are probably some situations where it >> actually works ok to do this and that we'll end up screwing up people >> who know what they're doing. >> >> We could just issue a warning but I hate for cygwin to be noisy in these kinds >> of situations. >> >> Any thoughts? >> > >Hmm... Is it just the parent process or the first process (i.e.: dll >initialization) you want to target? I've always suggested stopping all >processes when wanting to change the CYGWIN variable. Just the parent process. It should be ok to set CYGWIN to different values in different windows. Stopping all processes *is* a good idea, though, when instructing people who are unknowledgeable about cygwin. cgf
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