X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-Mailer: YahooMailRC/1042.40 YahooMailWebService/0.7.218 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:27:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Pedro Izecksohn Subject: Re: Incomplete environ when running MinGW apps? To: cygwin@cygwin.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Message-ID: <861131.94942.qm@web50110.mail.re2.yahoo.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id m6F8RtRi031013 Reference: http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2008-02/msg00181.html "Are you sure SHELL was exported to the environment, and not just in the bash shell variable namespace?" It is a documentation problem, from man bash: "SHELL The full pathname to the shell is kept in this environment variable." It may also be read from: http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html -- 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/