On Aug 18 21:34, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > 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.
Chuck, btw., the function setup_win_environ() in run.c can easily be replaced with `cygwin_internal (CW_SYNC_WINENV);' 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
