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Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 08:44:45 -0000 (GMT)
Subject: Re: default PATH
From: "John Morrison" <john@morrison.mine.nu>
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On Sat, February 11, 2006 8:41 pm, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> We're
> just trying go figure out if removing the ;; translation will affect
> many people.  We're not looking to add things to the PATH.
>
> There is a tradeoff here and I don't believe that we really know what
> the implications are.  You can speculate that thousands of people are
> affected by the ;; problem but we haven't had very many complaints about
> this and certainly people who are relying on ;; are not going to be
> sending email here since Cygwin is working as they expect.
>
> Also, while skipping empty elements is a trivial operation, it is not
> without cost.  Every time that we have to guard the user against
> something like this, we add another nail to the "cygwin is slow" coffin.

Would a reasonable solution would be to make the PATH environment variable
a special case and parse it when set?  (Appologies if this isn't a
reasonable solution)

John.


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