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Re: bad PATH conversion under XP


On Feb  1 23:41, Cyrille Lefevre wrote:
> I'm reporting a cygwin bug...
> of course I know I could edit the windows environment variables.
> however, this problem has to be fixed.

I agree.  It's not the user's fault that Windows applications and
Windows itself add paths to the environment using quotes and trailing
backslashes.  I applied a patch which removes those, but only when
Cygwin actually fetches the Win32 environment and initially converts the
path lists like %Path%.  This is not done when calling the
cygwin_conv_path_list function from the application.


Corinna

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