Ignore the CYGWIN environment variable if child of a cygwin process?
Earnie Boyd
earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
Tue Oct 9 10:50:00 GMT 2001
Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> I keep seeing people who have set the CYGWIN environment variable from the bash
> shell. This causes strange problems.
>
> I wonder if it would be worthwhile to ignore the CYGWIN environment variable
> if it is set in a process that is a child of a cygwin process.
>
> The downside is that there are probably some situations where it
> actually works ok to do this and that we'll end up screwing up people
> who know what they're doing.
>
> We could just issue a warning but I hate for cygwin to be noisy in these kinds
> of situations.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
Hmm... Is it just the parent process or the first process (i.e.: dll
initialization) you want to target? I've always suggested stopping all
processes when wanting to change the CYGWIN variable.
Earnie.
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