X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 14:07:10 -0600 From: Brian Ford Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: problem with run command and the environment In-Reply-To: <20060119195323.55297.qmail@web35606.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: References: <20060119195323 DOT 55297 DOT qmail AT web35606 DOT mail DOT mud DOT yahoo DOT com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Jeff Hardy wrote: > Is this fact useful to the discussion? The run.exe > executable that shows a limited view of the > environment under the latest cygwin is exactly the > same executable that runs on the older version of > cygwin that I have that does NOT exhibit the same > pathological behavior of displaying the limited > environment. The same run.exe binary behaves > differently on two different cygwins. On the older > cygwin it displays the full environment and on the > newer cygwin, it displays a severely limited view of > the environment. > > How can the problem be in run? Because run subverts Cygwin using Windows calls. Cygwin does not assure that this subversion will continue to work from release to release. Cygwin is only backward compatible when working entirely within the Cygwin box. -- Brian Ford Lead Realtime Software Engineer VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems FlightSafety International the best safety device in any aircraft is a well-trained pilot... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/