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On Dec 2 17:01, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Oct 27 23:09, Linda Walsh wrote: > > At the very least, "login -p" should be fixed to work (whereas > > now it has been explicitly patch to NOT WORK (man login:...) > > > > -p Used by getty(8) to tell login not to destroy the environment. > > This is disabled in the Cygwin version. > > > > Can login have the cygwin specific code that disables "-p" > > removed? > > You can always compile it yourself, of course. For the official > version we're not going to reintroduce this. > > However, the latest Cygwin snapshot from https://cygwin.com/snapshots/ > contains a patch which merges the user's default Windows environment > (more precise, the variables from the user's default Windows environment > missing in the current environment) as soon as the user is switched. > > Please give it a try. Linda? Ping? Did you have a chance to test this change? Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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