On 6/11/2010 1:46 PM, Steven Collins wrote:
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 08:38, Nellis, Kenneth wrote:
Perhaps it's worth considering adding a CYGWIN environment
variable option, e.g., exe_magic, and deliberately evolve
the code base towards checking this setting before invoking
exe magic. I, for one, never run my binaries in the Windows
environment, so exe magic has no benefit and numerous
disadvantages. The new option would default to ON, and
individual users could change their setting to OFF as the
evolution progresses to their satisfaction.
If any traction can be gained on actually making this change I think
this is a very reasonable way to proceed. Based on previous comments
it is almost certain that early attempts at making this type of change
will introduce breakage. Having an environment variable (maybe not
CYGWIN) that must be set to a specific value to enable the new
behavior would provide an escape hatch when such breakage is
encountered by allowing a person to unset the variable and getting
back the original behavior. The one potential down-side I see to this
idea is what cost would be incurred by having to check the state of an
environment variable every place that currently has exe magic?
It was done before on the way to where we are now:
<http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html#cygwinenv-removed-options>
See "(no)transparent_exe". But there's really no point in making arguments
about how to fine-tune an implementation when the implementation itself has
been likened to a theoretical snowball spending the summer in hell.
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