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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