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From: "Dave Korn" <dave DOT korn AT artimi DOT com>
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Subject: RE: Oddities with cygcheck
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 20:05:23 -0000
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Cliff Hones wrote:
> Dave Korn wrote:
>> Cliff Hones wrote:
>> 
>>> Looking through the cygcheck output I attached to an earler message
>>> 
>>>    http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-01/msg00799.html
>>> 
>>> I noticed strange output concerning kill.exe:
>>> 
>>>   Found: C:\WINNT\kill.exe
>>>   Found: C:\cygwin\bin\kill.exe
>>>   Warning: C:\WINNT\kill.exe hides C:\cygwin\bin\kill.exe
>>> 
>>> Now, I do, as it happens, have a KILL.EXE (note capitalization) in my
>>> WINNT, but it doesn't hide the Cygwin one.  I do not have C:\WINNT
>>> ahead of my \bin on my path.
>> 
>> 
>>   Well, you did when you ran that cygcheck:
>> 
>> -----------------------msg00799.html-----------------------
>> Windows 2000 Professional Ver 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 4
>> 
>> Path:	C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin
>> 	C:\cygwin\bin
>> 	C:\cygwin\bin
>> 	C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin
>> 	C:\WINNT\system32
>> 	C:\WINNT
>> 	C:\WINNT\System32\Wbem
>> 
>> Output from C:\cygwin\bin\id.exe (nontsec)
>> -----------------------msg00799.html-----------------------
> 
> Huh?  Looks to me like C:\WINNT is behind C:\cygwin\bin to me!


  Whoops!  Completely misread what was in front of my eyes there!  Yes, we do
have a mystery after all!


    cheers,
      DaveK
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Can't think of a witty .sigline today....


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