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Re: Feedback needed on proposed cygwin feature
- To: cgf at bbc dot com
- Subject: Re: Feedback needed on proposed cygwin feature
- From: Justin Smith <justins at iName dot com>
- Date: Mon, 01 Dec 1997 22:10:44 -0800
- CC: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- References: <EKHt00.DM8@bbc.com>
Chris Faylor wrote:
>
> I have recently provided a patch to Cygnus to provide control of various
> environment variable settings on a program by program basis.
>
> Geoffrey has asked that I get feedback on my changes to see if they are
> something that is useful to the list as a whole.
>
> My changes cause a program to read the registry for options settings prior
> to reading settings from the environment. So, for instance, you can do
> something like this:
>
> cygwin -o 'c:\bin\bash.exe' binmode notitle
>
> That will set options in the registry which will cause bash to always
> use 'binmode' as its default and to never modify the title bar.
>
I can see a possible problem: the change is limited to the copy of the
program in that directory. If you use the above example, but have
another copy of the program in a different directory, the changes will
not carry over, which in some, but not all, eyes could be a bad thing,
since you would have to have an entry for each instance of the program
you want to run. If, however, you just use the program name without the
path, the changes would be global for all instances of that program,
which is a little better in my opinion.
But that just brings up another question: what about instances run from
symlinks?
--
Justin Smith,
Systems Engineer with the law office of
Dewey, Cheetam and Howe.
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