Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 09:42:57 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.3.12-1 Message-ID: <20020705094257.K21857@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20020704223253.I21857@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 09:56:58PM +0100, tony.arnold@man.ac.uk wrote: > Out of curiosity if it's a bug in cron, why has it only just manifested > itself with the latest version of cygwin1.dll? I assume that cron is using > some cygwin call incorrectly, which hasn't mattered until now? No. It initializes the environment wrongly. The changed handling of HOME in Cygwin just showed how it goes wrong. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/