Am 02.02.2011 11:04, schrieb Corinna Vinschen: > On Feb 1 23:41, Cyrille Lefevre wrote: >> I'm reporting a cygwin bug... >> of course I know I could edit the windows environment variables. >> however, this problem has to be fixed. > > I agree. It's not the user's fault that Windows applications and > Windows itself add paths to the environment using quotes and trailing > backslashes. I applied a patch which removes those, but only when > Cygwin actually fetches the Win32 environment and initially converts the > path lists like %Path%. This is not done when calling the > cygwin_conv_path_list function from the application.
No offense intended, but is it useful to introduce such distinctions as to when/where/how the variable is fetched? It might cause hard-to-debug problems later on, don't you think? -- Matthias Andree -- 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
