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Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 19:39:08 -0800
From: Linda Walsh <cygwin@tlinx.org>
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Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] -- merging win-env vars into post-'login'-wiped-ENV
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Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> - When spawning a process under another user account, merge the user's
>   default Windows environment into the new process' environment.
----

	Will this affect using inetd to spawn rlogind => login.

	Right now all ENV vars are cleared by login -- which means the user
can't find their home directory (or their windows HOME DIR -- aka
USERPROFILE, HOME, HOMEDRIVE, HOMEPATH, PATHHOME among others.

	It's impossible for a wiped ENV process to pick up where
it should be -- initialize itself, etc.  Right now, I'm using
a horrible hack of reading in a valid copy of my ENV from a
a earlier save in a valid session.

	Is there any less horrible hack to get around this?

	BTW -- am not getting the warning about DOS paths
when BASH looks for my MAILBOX anymore!  Thanks!

	Note: I am trying to login as the *same* user (not a different
user).  So far, I have had to start inetd manually after login
to have it be in the same 'session', else it starts a new
session with no drives mounted.


	FWIW, I've found using rlogin allows me to use my own
terminal emulator that, unlike cmd.exe, actually supports UTF-8,
and it scrolls (not jump scroll), WAY fast... easily 2-3x using a
windows-type console (as in 'Console2).

Thanks!
-linda

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