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Re: default PATH
On Sat, February 11, 2006 8:41 pm, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> We're
> just trying go figure out if removing the ;; translation will affect
> many people. We're not looking to add things to the PATH.
>
> There is a tradeoff here and I don't believe that we really know what
> the implications are. You can speculate that thousands of people are
> affected by the ;; problem but we haven't had very many complaints about
> this and certainly people who are relying on ;; are not going to be
> sending email here since Cygwin is working as they expect.
>
> Also, while skipping empty elements is a trivial operation, it is not
> without cost. Every time that we have to guard the user against
> something like this, we add another nail to the "cygwin is slow" coffin.
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)
John.
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