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On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 08:38, Nellis, Kenneth wrote:Perhaps it's worth considering adding a CYGWIN environment variable option, e.g., exe_magic, and deliberately evolve the code base towards checking this setting before invoking exe magic. I, for one, never run my binaries in the Windows environment, so exe magic has no benefit and numerous disadvantages. The new option would default to ON, and individual users could change their setting to OFF as the evolution progresses to their satisfaction.
If any traction can be gained on actually making this change I think this is a very reasonable way to proceed. Based on previous comments it is almost certain that early attempts at making this type of change will introduce breakage. Having an environment variable (maybe not CYGWIN) that must be set to a specific value to enable the new behavior would provide an escape hatch when such breakage is encountered by allowing a person to unset the variable and getting back the original behavior. The one potential down-side I see to this idea is what cost would be incurred by having to check the state of an environment variable every place that currently has exe magic?
See "(no)transparent_exe". But there's really no point in making arguments about how to fine-tune an implementation when the implementation itself has been likened to a theoretical snowball spending the summer in hell.
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