On Aug 18 15:22, Christopher Faylor wrote: > 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.
It affects every program which calls CreateProcess or ShellExecute, for instance. This includes GDB, tcl, run, run2, cygstart, etc. > 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. I disagree. When do you change the directory to //?/pipe then? The first time chdir is called? 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
