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From: "John Emmas" <johne53 AT tiscali DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Is this a known problem with getenv() ?
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:46:39 -0000
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I first started using cygwin almost exactly a year ago.  Because of other
pressures I put it on the back burner (about 6 months ago) at which point,
it was current.  However, I haven't upgraded for about 6 months.

This morning I needed to compile an app that uses the C call,
getenv("PATH");  Let's say for the sake of argument that this was my path
(as displayed in a console window after typing "set") :-

/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/a:/b:/c:/d:/e

That's not my actual path - just an example.  Cygwin's getenv() is returning
something like this:-

/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/a:/b:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/c:/d:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/e:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:

Basically, any path folder that ends in '/bin' is being inserted into the
path multiple times and I just wondered if this was a known problem?
FWIW if I use the glib equivalent (g_getenv) I get the same problem (which
probably just indicates that g_getenv is a wrapper around getenv).

Thanks for any advice,

John


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