Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com X-Apparently-From: Message-ID: <3A5F15A2.F8D56ABC@yahoo.com> Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 09:33:06 -0500 From: Earnie Boyd Reply-To: Cygwin X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: soren AT wonderstorm DOT com CC: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: "The PATH problem" References: <3A5E927F DOT 7009 DOT 7C9D21F AT localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Soren Andersen wrote: > > On 12 Jan 2001, an entity purporting to be Schaible, Joerg [Schaible, Joerg > ] wrote [regarding RE: "The PATH problem"] > > > Hi Soren, > > > > >Cygwin doesn't allow modification or unset on the PATH variable after > > >login, so it has to be set right from 'Doze before bash gets fired up, no? > > > > Who has told you that? This is simply not true, but it depends on the shell > > you're using. > > I am *quite* sure I just read it in documentation, but I am sorry, I have > been multitasking at least a half-dozen projects for days now, and I do not > have a pointer to cite to the location of this statement. > > I exhaustively tried to alter my PATH inside bash (using statements > identical to what you cited) before I found the documentary confirmation > that it doesn't work. > > "YMMV". > YMMV??? Joerg is correct. This is an impartial nature of the shell, all shells, including command.com and cmd.exe. I don't think that your systems are a special case, but YMMV. Cheers, Earnie. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple