On Aug 18 15:51, Charles Wilson wrote: > On 8/18/2010 3:41 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > >Chuck, btw., the function setup_win_environ() in run.c can easily be > >replaced with `cygwin_internal (CW_SYNC_WINENV);' > > Yes, I was just looking at that. I think setup_win_environ (or its > guts before some early refactoring) pre-dated CW_SYNC_WINENV. > > Before removing it, I'll have to verify some things -- like whether > that-cygwin-fork-we-don't-mention has CW_SYNC_WINENV, and how hard > it would be to add if not -- since I want run to work "over there" > too.
CW_SYNC_WINENV is available since May 2006. That's Cygwin 1.5.20-1. > With respect to the orginal discussion that spawned this thread, I'm > going to hold off on any changes to run/run2/cygutils until a > consensus is reached regarding: > 1) what's going to happen "inside" cygwin wrt win32 cwd; I'm not sure yet. Maybe we should really go cgf's idea to stick to the Win32 CWD, as long as chdir isn't called the first time. > 2) what new APIs are provided In PM we agreed on my suggestion. I just have to test and document it first... > 3) and a project on how soon an official 1.7.7 will be released with > those changes I think 1.7.7 will be released rather very soon. Maybe this weekend. 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
