problen with run command and the environment

[Christopher Faylor]

On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 04:55:20PM -0800, Jeff Hardy wrote:
>Thanks for your reply. I'll attach next time.
>
>I'll accept what you say, but even environment variables that are in my
>windows environment are not in the environment of programs run under
>"run".  By environment, I mean that if you type set in a cmd window,
>you get the windows environment.  Practically none of those environment
>variables that appear when I type "set" in the cmd window are in
>programs run under the cygwin "run" command.  Also, this behaviour was
>not observed in cygwin before I updated it recently.  I looked at the
>source of "run" and see all it does is a CreateProcess with NULL in the
>environment pointer which I thought simply passes "run"'s environment
>to the newly created process.  I put a printf in run.c just before the
>CreateProcess call and got the HOME environment variable and printed
>it.  The value that is printed is correct.  The HOME environment
>variable in the new process is incorrect.
>
>Any ideas?

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-05/msg00587.html

I've already alerted the run maintainer about this, FWIW.

cgf

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