On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 05:33:56PM -0800, Karl M wrote: > >> Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 21:23:22 -0500 >> From: cgf >> Subject: Re: ssh + patch + $TMP >> >> On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 12:04:19AM +0100, Cyrille Lefevre wrote: >> >> I would really bet that there aren't many programs out there which rely >> on those environment variables. Just asserting that this is needed >> doesn't really advance the conversation at all since you're just a lone >> voice with no credentials which would give your opinion weight. If >> you have specific examples then please provide them. >> >> If this was truly like linux then I believe that most, if not all, of >> the environment would come from settings in the shell itself. So, in >> thinking about this more, I think we could probably get away with >> deleting everything. >> >> If someone wanted to run a program which relied on those variables they >> could always set them themselves. >> >Although, we do inherit the windows environment when launching a Cygwin >bash shell, so I wouldn't carry this argument to an extreme.
It's not the same thing. If we really had a getty/login processes like linux we would control the environment precisesly. In the case of sshd we're close to the way linux does things. There is a daemon running which starts a shell via sshd. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
