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CYGWIN Installer should setup a root environment variable


I have experienced many times situations which I would like to refer to CYGWIN's root directory from a bat script. The most generic solution would be to utilise an environment variable such as CYGROOT or (as in startxwin.bat) CYGWIN_ROOT to refer to the absolute windows pathname (e.g. D:\cygwin). This would free us from making assumptions if it was setup during the installation utility. The environment variable should be setup for system if installed for "All Users".

NT Question: How does cygwin update the System registry (for environment variables) if it is installed as a normal user? I can't modify it myself, so how does the installer do it?

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