Re: "run" changes behavior with cygwin-17.6

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Aug 18 21:34, 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.

Chuck, btw., the function setup_win_environ() in run.c can easily be
replaced with `cygwin_internal (CW_SYNC_WINENV);'


Corinna

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