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: Thu, 12 May 2005 15:10:58 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Patch for cygutils: make cygstart behave better under mount -X Message-ID: <20050512191058.GB4333@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <42839F26.809@mscha.org> <20050512185428.GE478@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <4283A783.6070801@acm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4283A783.6070801@acm.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 11:59:15AM -0700, David Rothenberger wrote: >On 5/12/2005 11:54 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 08:23:34PM +0200, Michael Schaap wrote: >> >>>Hi, >>> >>>Attached is a patch to fix cygstart behaviour when running under "mount >>>-X". Cygstart now ensures that the Windows environment is synchronized >>>with the Cygwin one. >>>(For more details, see the recent thread: "Fixing strace and cygcheck so >>>that they work with mount -X") >>> >>>Chuck, can you, at your convenience, apply this patch and release a new >>>version of cygutils? >> >>Didn't we come to the conclusion that you shouldn't be adding PATH to >>the environment? I don't see anything which does this in your patch. > >It's done indirectly by not copying cygwin variables that already exist >in the Windows environment. Is it safe to assume that PATH will always >already been in the Windows environment given a cygexec invocation? If >not, we'll need to copy it and convert it to Windows form. No, you're right. I think I should stop posting for a few days until my cold clears up. The inability to breath or sleep is making me miss things. So, apologies for missing this. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/