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Re: Protect fork() against dll- and exe-updates.
- From: Michael Haubenwallner <michael dot haubenwallner at ssi-schaefer dot com>
- To: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 09:38:26 +0200
- Subject: Re: Protect fork() against dll- and exe-updates.
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On 04/05/2016 10:35 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> I'm still not overly excited about using the existence of the dir alone
>>> as marker to activate this feature, but that can be added later...
>>
>> I could think of some flag to set in setup.exe, but still where to store
>> the flag except for the existence of the directory. I'm not sure if the
>> registry should be used for everything...
>
> No, not the registry. The CYGWIN environment variable, perhaps.
We use 'env -i' to start some package management processes, which clobbers
the CYGWIN environment variable as well...
/haubi/