Hi, There are a bunch of applications, which, for security reasons, want to set $PATH to a fixed value. This approach is a bit tricky on Windows, since the needed paths to the Windows system directories are not fixed values as it's on POSIX systems. A lot of applications are falling back to values like _PATH_DEFPATH or _PATH_STDPATH and use them to set $PATH before starting another application. Sshd, login, cron are just three of them. The current patches to all three applications are so that the code which sets $PATH before exec'ing another process is not executed when built for Cygwin.
I think a better approach is this: Let's generalize the idea of a fixed path to the Windows system directories. I suggest, that one of the base install scripts creates a symlink "/WINDOWS" like this: ln -s `cygpath -m "$WINDIR"` /WINDOWS This allows to keep the above described code to set $PATH in the affected tools, just by redefining, say _PATH_DEFPATH like this: #ifdef _PATH_DEFPATH #undef _PATH_DEFPATH #define _PATH_DEFPATH "/usr/bin:/bin:/WINDOWS/system32:/WINDOWS:/WINDOWS/COMMAND/WINDOWS/system32/Wbem" #endif which contains both, NT and 9x paths. We could perhaps even change /usr/include/paths.h to reflect this, at one point. Opinions? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc.
