On 3 December 2010 06:08, Lennart Borgman wrote: > On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 6:51 AM, Andy Koppe wrote: >> On 2 December 2010 22:31, Lennart Borgman wrote: >>> In current cygwin (just updated) I need to downcase the test for >>> CHERE_INVOKING in .profile to make it work >> >> To make what work? >> >> /bin/xhere, the part of the chere package that cd's to the required >> directory and invokes the user's shell, sets CHERE_INVOKING in >> uppercase, as it always has done. > > I am using this to start Cygwin from a cmd prompt: > > �...@echo off > �...@rem Had to change chere_invoking in .profile to lower case. > set CHERE_INVOKING=1 > C:\cygwin\bin\bash --login -i
That works fine for me: it does start bash without changing the current directory. I can't think of any reason why CHERE_INVOKING would be converted to lowercase. How did you verify that that is what's happening? Also, cygcheck output as requested at http://cygwin.com/problems.html might provide clues. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
