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Re: Change to environment variable handling
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:49:00 -0500
- Subject: Re: Change to environment variable handling
- References: <20081111105921.GE6478@calimero.vinschen.de>
- Reply-to: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 11:59:21AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>I just applied a customer induced patch which changes the way the
>environment is treated when a Cygwin process is started from a
>non-Cygwin process. For the last ten years all environment variables
>were unconditionally uppercased.
And, for the last ten years I have resisted this patch in all of its
manifestations.
>Now the user has a choice.
Translation: Now you (or Red Hat) has made a unilateral decision to
change Cygwin functionality.
cgf