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Re: Oddities with cygcheck


Dave Korn wrote:
> Cliff Hones wrote:
> 
>>Looking through the cygcheck output I attached to an earler message
>>
>>    http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-01/msg00799.html
>>
>>I noticed strange output concerning kill.exe:
>>
>>   Found: C:\WINNT\kill.exe
>>   Found: C:\cygwin\bin\kill.exe
>>   Warning: C:\WINNT\kill.exe hides C:\cygwin\bin\kill.exe
>>
>>Now, I do, as it happens, have a KILL.EXE (note capitalization) in my WINNT, 
>>but it doesn't hide the Cygwin one.  I do not have C:\WINNT ahead of my \bin 
>>on my path.  
> 
> 
>   Well, you did when you ran that cygcheck:
> 
> -----------------------msg00799.html-----------------------
> Windows 2000 Professional Ver 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 4
> 
> Path:	C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin
> 	C:\cygwin\bin
> 	C:\cygwin\bin
> 	C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin
> 	C:\WINNT\system32
> 	C:\WINNT
> 	C:\WINNT\System32\Wbem
> 
> Output from C:\cygwin\bin\id.exe (nontsec)
> -----------------------msg00799.html-----------------------

Huh?  Looks to me like C:\WINNT is behind C:\cygwin\bin to me!
I've not changed PATH - it echoes in bash as:
   $ echo $PATH
   /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/C/WINNT/system32:/C/WINNT:/C/WINNT/System32/Wbem
and, as I demonstrated, the Cygwin kill is found first.

-- Cliff

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