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Re: Exec and parent environment [attn tcltk maintainer]


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According to Steve Smith on 2/2/2006 5:17 AM:
> 
> I have a similar problem to that reported before under this subject  title.
> When I type "env" the environment appears fine. However, when I start  a
> tclsh and type
> 
> puts [ exec sh -c "env" ]
> 
> the environment is almost empty - this is new behaviour, the whole 
> environment got fully passed through until recently.

Sounds like YA case of
http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2006-01/msg00938.html.  tclsh is one of
the few programs in /bin that does not link against cygwin1.dll, but uses
Windows directly.  So it probably needs to be taught how to interact with
cygwin's updated environment scheme.

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Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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