1.5.12: TERM environment reset to "cygwin" after fork()

[Christopher Faylor]

On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 02:35:59PM -0500, B. Scott Smith wrote:
>Version: CYGWIN_NT-5.0 -- 1.5.12(0.116/4/2) -- i686 unknown unknown Cygwin
>
>I set the TERM environment variable in my application by calling 
>setenv(). A subsequent call to getenv("TERM") yields the expected value. 
>However, after performing a fork(), the call to getenv("TERM") returns 
>"cygwin". This is the case for both the parent and the child.
>
>Any ideas?

Simple test case?

cgf

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