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Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2000 17:35:58 +0200
From: Christian Tismer <tismer AT tismer DOT com>
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Subject: cygwin binmode problem, dll initialization time
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Hi cygwin people,

I enocuntered a little problem when trying to use OpenSSH
together with WinCVS:
It only works when the environment variable CYGWIN is set to
'binary'. So far so good, but:

I tried to write a wrapper around ssh, which changes a few
settings, adds some defaults and so on. In order to avoid to
set the CYGWIN valriable globally for my machine, I tried
to pass this variable via _putenv to the environment, before
_exec'ing to the real ssh.

This does not work! The environment variable *is* passed
through to the called process, but that doesn't help.
I assume that it is the cygwion dll which must evaluate
the variable, and it doesn't do so when the calling process
has already linked to the cygwin dll.

Question: Is that a bug or an intended feature?

Here some proof of my statement:
Instead of calling gcc, I used MS VC++ to compile my little
launcher program. This has no dll linkage to the cygwin
dll, and in fact, initialization is ok, and the environment
variable's value is obeyed while ssh is running.

ciao - chris

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