Luke Kendall wrote: > I see that by default PATH includes some entries like > %SystemRoot%/System32 > > I also note that $SystemRoot is undefined, yet $SYSTEMROOT contains the > expected C:\WINDOWS value. > > This of course causes problems. Would a backslash-style path work > correctly if it were properly interpolated into the PATH? Is the % > notation special magic for Cygwin to handle DOS-isms? > > The case variance may be of interest, in that case.
I think you're falsely attributing your errors to this. The cygwin DLL takes care of all the win32 -> posix translation of the path, and it knows about %SystemRoot%. If this were really the case don't you think tons of things would break? Try "echo $PATH" at your shell prompt and you'll see that the systemroot is correctly substituted. FWIW, I think environment variables are case-insensitive at the win32 API level. They preserve case but are not sensitive to it, just like ntfs. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/