On Feb 2 11:54, Matthias Andree wrote: > Am 02.02.2011 11:04, schrieb Corinna Vinschen: > > On Feb 1 23:41, Cyrille Lefevre wrote: > >> I'm reporting a cygwin bug... > >> of course I know I could edit the windows environment variables. > >> however, this problem has to be fixed. > > > > I agree. It's not the user's fault that Windows applications and > > Windows itself add paths to the environment using quotes and trailing > > backslashes. I applied a patch which removes those, but only when > > Cygwin actually fetches the Win32 environment and initially converts the > > path lists like %Path%. This is not done when calling the > > cygwin_conv_path_list function from the application. > > No offense intended, but is it useful to introduce such distinctions as > to when/where/how the variable is fetched? It might cause hard-to-debug > problems later on, don't you think?
Existing applications might rely on the existing behaviour, especially related to the backslash. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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
