Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: >>Not really. All the below reference says is that this is intentional, not why it's >being done. My question was why. > > If you follow the later posts as I mention below, you might find the answers.
Don't have the time. > If you're really interested in understanding what the background on this > issue is, you'll want to check out the discussions in the email archives > regarding the problems that arose when bash was changed. > > BTW, bash was changed because these environment variables are set at login > on *NIX platforms, so setting them in bash is redundant at best. > > But I still recommend looking at the email archives to understand > everyone's ideas on this issue. I really don't have the time to do this. I just pointed out the issue. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
