Re: Program Options vs. cygwin env problem

["Stephen C. Biggs" <yyyyy50 at hotpop dot com>]

On 8 Aug 2002 at 23:23, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 10:18:45PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >Warning: WAG.
> >I may be completely off the mark here, but I think I recall reading that
> >the cygwin dll only reads the system environment once upon startup, and
> >that to have any changes in the environment take effect you need to reboot
> >to force a reload of the cygwin dll.  Could the same apply to the registry
> >value?
> 
> Both the CYGWIN environment variable and registry options are read at process
> startup time.
> 

Then why would the CYGWIN environment variable be different from the 
registry options, actually being the same as the first time I set the 
options!

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