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Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 18:15:14 -0700
From: Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Problem with 'cvs login'
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Christopher Faylor wrote:

> If that really does fix the problem then something is broken in CYGWIN.
> 
> Corinna fixed things so that this should no longer be a problem:
> 
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2004-11/msg00014.html

I tested this here and I can confirm that SYSTEMROOT indeed is not being
set in the child if it's not included in 'passenv'.  I'll see if I can
dig further...

Brian

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