X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 15:22:38 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: "run" changes behavior with cygwin-17.6 Message-ID: <20100818192238.GA27567@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <380-220108318145158645 AT cantv DOT net> <20100818150920 DOT GY11340 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <4C6C1490 DOT 3040202 AT cwilson DOT fastmail DOT fm> <4C6C1582 DOT 1080801 AT acm DOT org> <20100818182412 DOT GA22698 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <20100818185421 DOT GC22698 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <20100818191340 DOT GB11340 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <20100818191906 DOT GD22698 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100818191906.GD22698@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> 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: 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 Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 03:19:06PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>already does for the environment. Dropping the environment had roughly >>the same consequences way back when, after all. > >Except that not every program uses the windows environment. This affects >quite a few native windows calls. And, for that reason, I think we should reconsider this change. Maybe as a compromise maybe we could at least avoid cd'ing to the dummy location on entry to the first cygwin program. cgf -- 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