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Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2000 19:32:53 +0200
From: Christian Tismer <tismer AT tismer DOT com>
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To: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject: Re: cygwin binmode problem, dll initialization time
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Earnie,

sorry, this is not true.
I have an open CYGWIN window, and CYGWIN is *not* set.
Then I start a little wrapper which sets CYGWIN and
fires up the Cygwin ssh process, on demand of WinCVS.
This *does* work, but only because my wrapper is
not compiled with gcc, but MS C++. The new incarnation
of the cygwin dll is then evaluating the params correctly.

ciao - chris

Earnie Boyd wrote:
> 
> The CYGWIN variable *must* be set *before*any* Cygwin process starts.
> 
> Cheers,
> Earnie
> --- Christian Tismer <tismer AT tismer DOT com> wrote:
> > 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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