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Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 09:44:45 -0400
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Forcing SYSTEMROOT (opinions needed)
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Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 
> On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 01:14:39PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf AT redhat DOT com]
> >> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 1:21 PM
> >> To: Christopher Faylor
> >> Subject: Re: Forcing SYSTEMROOT (opinions needed)
> >>
> >>
> >> So we have to trade the possibility of someone wanting
> >> complete control of
> >> his environment versus the possibility of someone not
> >> specifying SYSTEMROOT
> >> but needing it for the program that is about to be run.
> >
> >This ones easy.  Remove winsock/socket support from cygwin.  See the
> >problems gone :]
> 
> Yeah, but then people would claim that Cygwin was "unstable" and "always
> breaking network support".
> 
> >>Should I flip a coin?
> >
> >I'd add systemroot.  If it's needed from cygwin running, not having it
> >is like trying to run hurd without a microkernel - if you want it
> >different you have to fiddle yourself!
> >
> >We can always do a switch to control it down the track.
> 
> I guess we could add a cygwin_keep_environment_clean () call or something.
> Is there a standard way to control this type of behavior on UNIX.  I'm thinking
> that there is something like sysconf or ulimit or something but more generic
> than that.  I'm drawing a blank, though.
> 

The other option is to leave it alone and document it.  We've discovered
the problem how many times in the past how many years?

Earnie.

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