> -----Original Message----- > Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 14:39 > Subject: Re: /etc/profile > > > Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com> writes: > > Unfortunately, at least your windows system dll directory has to be on > > PATH, or cygwin1.dll will fail to load, so blindly removing ALL > > windows paths from PATH is wrong. > > At that point cygwin1.dll is already loaded and so far I haven't seen anything > not working due to that change. But yes, I didn't think of that, so I'm curious > why it seems to work as nicely as it does. >
Read section "Search order for desktop applications" at "Dynamic-Link Library Search Order" at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms682586(v=vs.85).as px Bottom line, you don't need system32 in the path for DLL loading to work. I seem to recall that some earlier versions of Windows actually did not include system32 in the PATH by default. -- 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
