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Re: CYGWIN Installer should setup a root environment variable

Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

`cygpath -w /`

Thanks.

> On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Chris Walters wrote:

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?

It doesn't.  It only updates HKEY_CURRENT_USER, which it's always allowed
to do.  And, AFAIK, it doesn't set any environment variables, just the
mount settings...
You're right, I made a mistake in the question. I meant to say for mount points, i.e. mount -s stores information in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, but I can manually set these values (though this may be due to being a PowerUser).


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