Re: Environment variable documentation

[Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu>]

On 12/1/2009 4:45 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Nov 30 17:04, Ken Brown wrote:
> > The discussion currently going on in the thread
> >
> >   http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-11/threads.html#00892
> >
> > makes me think that the section on environment variables in the
> > user's guide (http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/setup-env.html)
> > could use some expansion.  For example, it's not stated explicitly
> > which Windows environment variables get imported into Cygwin (all of
> > them?), nor is there a complete list of variables containing paths
>
> Yes, all of them.
>
> > that get converted to Unix format.  PATH, HOME, and LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> > are mentioned, but TMPDIR, TMP, and TEMP are omitted.  I think the
> > last three should be listed, along with the suggestion that users
> > might want to unset them in the Cygwin environment.
>
> Yes, TMPDIR, TMP, and TEMP are handled the same way as PATH, HOME, and
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH.  These six variables are the set of environment
> variables which are subject to path conversion from Windows to POSIX and
> vice versa.
>
> > I would be willing to take a stab at writing a patch if the
> > developers think this would be useful.
>
> That sounds like a nice idea.

OK, my patch is attached.  It anticipates the change to the default 
.bashrc file that we've been discussing in the thread cited above.

Ken

Attachment: environ.patch
Description: Text document

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