On May 25 09:08, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Wed, 25 May 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > This is a change to sshd which had been requested upstream. The main > > developers felt that propagating all SYSTEM environment to the > > unprivileged child applications has to be treated as unsecure. > > Therefore I implemented to propagate only the core Windows environment > > to child processes back in 3.9, AFAIR. > > I would've thought that CYGWIN is a core environment variable (not a > Windows one, of course). I'm not sure, though, whether it would be > correct to propagate it -- one could argue either way...
Right. The upcoming 4.1p1 release will propagate the CYGWIN variable as well. I just got that patch upstream last minute :-) Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
