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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.
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