Exec and parent environment [attn tcltk maintainer]

[Steve Smith]

Thanks for the feedback. So does this mean that it is the tcl that is  
bundled with Cygwin that is broken?

Is there an easy workaround?

Cheers.


On 2 Feb 2006, at 13:49, Eric Blake wrote:

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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.
>
> - --
> Life is short - so eat dessert first!
>
> Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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