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Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 09:42:57 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.3.12-1
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On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 09:56:58PM +0100, tony DOT arnold AT man DOT ac DOT uk wrote:
> Out of curiosity if it's a bug in cron, why has it only just manifested
> itself with the latest version of cygwin1.dll? I assume that cron is using
> some cygwin call incorrectly, which hasn't mattered until now?

No.  It initializes the environment wrongly.  The changed handling of
HOME in Cygwin just showed how it goes wrong.

Corinna

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