On Feb 12 13:52, John Morrison wrote: > On Sun, February 12, 2006 11:58 am, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Feb 12 08:44, John Morrison wrote: > >> Would a reasonable solution would be to make the PATH environment > >> variable > >> a special case and parse it when set? (Appologies if this isn't a > >> reasonable solution) > > > > Er... how does this match the question? %PATH% always exists and so > > it has always to be parsed to create $PATH. > > Humm, sorry - sleep deprived. Was thinking that it would only need to be > parsed once (don't know the internals of cygwin very well) rather than the > (possibily, if I read correcly, implied) multiple times.
PATH is always parsed and transformed in the "other" syntax when a Cygwin process is started from a native Win32 process and vice versa, which makes sort of sense, I hope :-) Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/
