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Re: Forcing SYSTEMROOT (opinions needed)
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 01:14:39PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf@redhat.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 1:21 PM
>> To: Christopher Faylor
>> Subject: Re: Forcing SYSTEMROOT (opinions needed)
>>
>>
>> So we have to trade the possibility of someone wanting
>> complete control of
>> his environment versus the possibility of someone not
>> specifying SYSTEMROOT
>> but needing it for the program that is about to be run.
>
>This ones easy. Remove winsock/socket support from cygwin. See the
>problems gone :]
Yeah, but then people would claim that Cygwin was "unstable" and "always
breaking network support".
>>Should I flip a coin?
>
>I'd add systemroot. If it's needed from cygwin running, not having it
>is like trying to run hurd without a microkernel - if you want it
>different you have to fiddle yourself!
>
>We can always do a switch to control it down the track.
I guess we could add a cygwin_keep_environment_clean () call or something.
Is there a standard way to control this type of behavior on UNIX. I'm thinking
that there is something like sysconf or ulimit or something but more generic
than that. I'm drawing a blank, though.
cgf