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From: "Soegtrop, Michael" <michael.soegtrop@intel.com>
To: Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com>,
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Subject: RE: Unexpected behavior of ~ when calling bash from a different cygwin installation
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2018 13:33:19 +0000
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Dear Marco,

> this is due to the preference given by Windows to load dll's from the same
> directory where the program is resident instead of using the ones in the PATH

yes, this is expected behavior. What is not expected is that the location of the system root in the Windows file system does not depend on the loaded cygwin1.dll.

Best regards,

Michael
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