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From: Mike Mueller <mike AT subfocal DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Cygwin app not receiving modified PATH env var
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On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 11:41:52PM -0400, Mike Mueller wrote:
> I have a program (native win32) that is capable of launching
> sub-processes, using apr (apache portable runtime), which is essentially
> a wrapper around CreateProcess in the Windows API.  My program creates a
> modified environment (changes the PATH env var), and passes this new
> environment to CreateProcess.
> 
> When I run a native Windows program, for example, a .bat script that
> says "echo %PATH%", I see the correctly modified PATH env var.
> 
> When I run a Cygwin program, the PATH is the original unmodified path
> (rephrased in cygwin format), maybe inherited from the parent process?
> The modified PATH being passed to CreateProcess is not discovered by the
> Cygwin app.
> 
> I would've expected the two to behave the same in this situation.  Has
> anyone done anything like this before?  Is there a known issue here, or
> is this a new bug?  Workarounds?

No thoughts on this?  How & when does Cygwin take a snapshot of the
Windows environment?  I'm still trying to figure out how my modified
environment is not being picked up...

Mike

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