X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com
X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 10:45:31 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Environment variable documentation
Message-ID: <20091201094531.GE30043@calimero.vinschen.de>
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
References: <4B14415D DOT 1050701 AT cornell DOT edu>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <4B14415D.1050701@cornell.edu>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14)
Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
List-Id: <cygwin.cygwin.com>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:cygwin-unsubscribe-archive-cygwin=delorie DOT com AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
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 Nov 30 17:04, Ken Brown wrote:
> The discussion currently going on in the thread
> 
>   http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-11/threads.html#00892
> 
> makes me think that the section on environment variables in the
> user's guide (http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/setup-env.html)
> could use some expansion.  For example, it's not stated explicitly
> which Windows environment variables get imported into Cygwin (all of
> them?), nor is there a complete list of variables containing paths

Yes, all of them.

> that get converted to Unix format.  PATH, HOME, and LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> are mentioned, but TMPDIR, TMP, and TEMP are omitted.  I think the
> last three should be listed, along with the suggestion that users
> might want to unset them in the Cygwin environment.

Yes, TMPDIR, TMP, and TEMP are handled the same way as PATH, HOME, and
LD_LIBRARY_PATH.  These six variables are the set of environment
variables which are subject to path conversion from Windows to POSIX and
vice versa.

> I would be willing to take a stab at writing a patch if the
> developers think this would be useful.

That sounds like a nice idea.


Thanks,
Corinna

-- 
Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Project Co-Leader          cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat

--
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple