X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 12:58:26 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: default PATH Message-ID: <20060212115826.GR14219@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20060210190116.GL14219@calimero.vinschen.de> <2A9FABB3664AF8459CBADA1CE4E402463D1BF1@DF-MASTIFF-MSG.exchange.corp.microsoft.com> <20060211204153.GA14065@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <1139.192.168.0.12.1139733885.squirrel@mail.morrison.mine.nu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1139.192.168.0.12.1139733885.squirrel@mail.morrison.mine.nu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Feb 12 08:44, John Morrison wrote: > 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) Er... how does this match the question? %PATH% always exists and so it has always to be parsed to create $PATH. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/