Bug in $PATH initialization?

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Lennart Borgman wrote:
> I am trying to get "bash -i" to start up with $PATH having
> 
>    /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
> 
> at the beginning. I believe I need to do this without any init file
> running so I set the windows Path variable to contain the
> corresponding windows directories first. So I set Path in cmd.exe with
> 
>   set Path=c:\cygwin\bin;%Path%
>   set Path=c:\cygwin\usr\bin;%Path%
>   set Path=c:\cygwin\usr\local\bin;%Path%
> 
> and then I do
> 
>   bash -i
> 
> However $PATH starts with
> 
>    /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin
> 
> I thought the last dir above should be /bin, not /usr/bin.
> 
> Is this intentional or is it a bug. If it is intentional can I somehow
> do what I want another way?
> 

In Cygwin, /bin and /usr/bin both always point to the same place, so it
does get the effect you seem to want, just not in the way you expected.

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