cygwin PATH reorg?

Geoffrey Noer noer@cygnus.com
Fri Nov 19 12:20:00 GMT 1999


On Fri, Nov 19, 1999, Chris Faylor wrote:
>
> Given the number of problems that seem to crop up with people on the
> cygwin mailing list, I was wondering if it made sense to have cygwin
> probe the path list looking for the directory which is essentially
> "/bin" and put this directory first in the PATH.

This doesn't sound like a good idea to me.  Somewhat hidden cleverness
is really dangerous.  Could better documentation possibly accomplish
the same goals?  Dunno, but I would think that would be preferable.

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Geoffrey Noer		Email: noer@cygnus.com
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