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Re: default PATH


On Sun, February 12, 2006 11:58 am, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Feb 12 08:44, John Morrison wrote:
>> On Sat, February 11, 2006 8:41 pm, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> > We're
>> > just trying go figure out if removing the ;; translation will affect
>> > many people.  We're not looking to add things to the PATH.
>> >
>> > There is a tradeoff here and I don't believe that we really know what
>> > the implications are.  You can speculate that thousands of people are
>> > affected by the ;; problem but we haven't had very many complaints
>> about
>> > this and certainly people who are relying on ;; are not going to be
>> > sending email here since Cygwin is working as they expect.
>> >
>> > Also, while skipping empty elements is a trivial operation, it is not
>> > without cost.  Every time that we have to guard the user against
>> > something like this, we add another nail to the "cygwin is slow"
>> coffin.
>>
>> Would a reasonable solution would be to make the PATH environment
>> variable
>> a special case and parse it when set?  (Appologies if this isn't a
>> reasonable solution)
>
> Er... how does this match the question?  %PATH% always exists and so
> it has always to be parsed to create $PATH.

Humm, sorry - sleep deprived.  Was thinking that it would only need to be
parsed once (don't know the internals of cygwin very well) rather than the
(possibily, if I read correcly, implied) multiple times.

J.


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