On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 10:16:28AM +0000, Achim Gratz wrote: > I'm removing the Windows PATH in my startup scripts since there's nothing in > there that I think should be accessible from Cygwin. > For (t)csh this is easy enough to do with dropping a script into > /etc/profile.d > that gets executed first, but there's no such provision for sh and the ilk > since > PATH is set up already before it get there. Now, unless profile gets changed > I > can still cut off "/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:" with a profile.d script, but I > think it might be preferrable that the Windows path gets recorded into > ORIGINAL_PATH or some similar name at the beginning of profile. It would then > be a simple matter to later add the Windows path where appropriate, but I > don't > think the default path should have it at all. > Also, there are two things in profile that may admit slight improvement (a > place > where LC_COLLATE is specified just for one command and better guarding > against a > missing or non-cdable /etc/skel).
All three changes will be available in the next release (profile_d modification taken from your last version in this thread). Thanks. -- Primary key fingerprint: AD8F BDC0 5A2C FD5F A179 60E7 F79B AB04 5299 EC56
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