Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: "Stephen C. Biggs" To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 21:05:21 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Program Options vs. cygwin env problem Message-ID: <3D52DD11.9527.BFD2D@localhost> In-reply-to: <20020809032349.GA9516@redhat.com> References: Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body On 8 Aug 2002 at 23:23, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 10:18:45PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >Warning: WAG. > >I may be completely off the mark here, but I think I recall reading that > >the cygwin dll only reads the system environment once upon startup, and > >that to have any changes in the environment take effect you need to reboot > >to force a reload of the cygwin dll. Could the same apply to the registry > >value? > > Both the CYGWIN environment variable and registry options are read at process > startup time. > Then why would the CYGWIN environment variable be different from the registry options, actually being the same as the first time I set the options! -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/