I noticed that my windows programs see a strange and bogus PATH. It is demonstrated here, from cmd.exe:
Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195] (C) Copyright 1985-2000 Microsoft Corp. c:\>PATH C:\Cygwin\bin;c:\cygwin\usr\bin;C:\Cygwin\usr\local\bin c:\>bash -i bash-2.05a$ echo $PATH /bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin bash-2.05a$ /c/winnt/system32/cmd Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195] (C) Copyright 1985-2000 Microsoft Corp. c:\>path PATH=c:\cygwin\bin;c:\cygwin\\bin;c:\cygwin\usr\local\bin ===============================^^ c:\> Notice the bogus double backslash. Is this a known bug? -- 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/