On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 11:38:59AM -0600, Matthew Woehlke wrote: >...is there a way to tell Cygwin that variables other than PATH, etc >(i.e. arbitrary, user-specified variables) should be converted from >POSIX format to Windows format when spawning a non-POSIX application? > >If not, would it be acceptable to add such a feature if I were to submit >a patch for it?
This has come up repeatedly over the years. I'm not a fan of adding a slowdown to an already slow part of cygwin, so, no, I don't think it would be acceptable. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/