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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: default PATH
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On Feb 12 13:52, John Morrison wrote:
> On Sun, February 12, 2006 11:58 am, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Feb 12 08:44, John Morrison wrote:
> >> Would a reasonable solution would be to make the PATH environment
> >> variable
> >> a special case and parse it when set?  (Appologies if this isn't a
> >> reasonable solution)
> >
> > Er... how does this match the question?  %PATH% always exists and so
> > it has always to be parsed to create $PATH.
> 
> Humm, sorry - sleep deprived.  Was thinking that it would only need to be
> parsed once (don't know the internals of cygwin very well) rather than the
> (possibily, if I read correcly, implied) multiple times.

PATH is always parsed and transformed in the "other" syntax when a
Cygwin process is started from a native Win32 process and vice versa,
which makes sort of sense, I hope :-)


Corinna

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