X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 15:51:58 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: default PATH Message-ID: <20060212145158.GY14219@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> <20060212115826.GR14219@calimero.vinschen.de> <1091.192.168.0.12.1139752324.squirrel@mail.morrison.mine.nu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1091.192.168.0.12.1139752324.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 13:52, John Morrison wrote: > On Sun, February 12, 2006 11:58 am, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Feb 12 08:44, John Morrison wrote: > >> 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. > > Humm, sorry - sleep deprived. Was thinking that it would only need to be > parsed once (don't know the internals of cygwin very well) rather than the > (possibily, if I read correcly, implied) multiple times. PATH is always parsed and transformed in the "other" syntax when a Cygwin process is started from a native Win32 process and vice versa, which makes sort of sense, I hope :-) 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/