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Re: Exec and parent environment [attn tcltk maintainer]
- From: Eric Blake <ebb9 at byu dot net>
- To: Steve Smith <steve at fmrib dot ox dot ac dot uk>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 06:49:30 -0700
- Subject: Re: Exec and parent environment [attn tcltk maintainer]
- References: <92C332DB-E56E-40BD-BAF6-A86CFCF602AC@fmrib.ox.ac.uk>
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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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Life is short - so eat dessert first!
Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
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