On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 09:34:46PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Aug 18 15:22, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 03:19:06PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> >>already does for the environment. Dropping the environment had roughly >> >>the same consequences way back when, after all. >> > >> >Except that not every program uses the windows environment. This affects >> >quite a few native windows calls. > >It affects every program which calls CreateProcess or ShellExecute, for >instance. This includes GDB, tcl, run, run2, cygstart, etc.
And, the current change affects every one of those programs and more. >> And, for that reason, I think we should reconsider this change. Maybe >> as a compromise maybe we could at least avoid cd'ing to the dummy >> location on entry to the first cygwin program. > >I disagree. When do you change the directory to //?/pipe then? The >first time chdir is called? Yes. 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