> | Was written by me: > Was replied by Eric Blake: > | "SHELL The full pathname to the shell is kept in this environment variable. > | If it is not set when the shell starts, > | Bash assigns to it the full pathname of the current user's login shell." > | > | SHELL is not being exported to the environment on Cygwin. > > Not a bug. There are two namespaces - shell variables and environment > variables. If SHELL is not in the environment when bash starts, then bash > does not stick it in the environment; it is up to you to do 'export SHELL'.
So, could Bash Reference Manual explain it? I'm not the only one who misunderstood the manual.
