Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3FFE04E3.DFC40A2A@dessent.net> Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 17:33:23 -0800 From: Brian Dessent Organization: My own little world... MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: control-spacebar References: <20040108204601.C1DDB3C063@juggler.cs.utah.edu> <20040108220309.E7E393C063@juggler.cs.utah.edu> <6.0.1.1.0.20040108170956.04118050@127.0.0.1> <20040108223508.EFF7B3C063@juggler.cs.utah.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - host.linuxsv3.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - cygwin.com X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - dessent.net X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com "H. James de St. Germain" wrote: > at the time... Its curious that it works in either place and even more > curious that placing it after cygwin starts causes programs like rxvt > to core dump. Why should that be curious? As Chris pointed out it has to be set before cygwin1.dll initializes. If you set it in any kind of rc or dotfile it's too late, as you're already running a shell and/or rxvt by that point, all of which are Cygwin apps that load cygwin1.dll. If you put it in the batch file before the first Cygwin program runs, it will be set when the DLL does its initialization, so everything is fine. You can also set it with Windows own Environment Variables setting page, which causes it to be set in the registry and active for all processes, not just the Cygwin.bat. I think this is required if you have any Cygwin apps running as a service. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/