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RE: How to (dynamically) control Unix/Dos PATH-like variable translation



I also question the usefulness of this. There are special cases where it is
useful, like when you are passing paths from a windows program to a Cygwin
one (I created a hack recently to allow me to right-click on a directory and
get a Cygwin Bash shell in that directory.) But for those cases, I would
think the 'cygpath' utility would be sufficient.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf@redhat.com]
> Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2001 9:23 PM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Cc: honza@ied.com
> Subject: Re: How to (dynamically) control Unix/Dos PATH-like variable
> translation
> 
> 
> On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 10:00:57PM -0400, Jan Vicherek wrote:
> >On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >> On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 12:53:28AM -0500, Jan Vicherek wrote:
> >> >On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >> >How can I control which variables get translated Dos->Unix when
> >> >starting a CYGWIN binary from Windows and which variables get
> >> >translated Unix->Dos when starting a DOS/Windows binary 
> from CYGWIN ?
> >> >
> >> 
> >http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#USING-PATHNAMES says
> >> >that HOME, PATH, and LD_LIBRARY_PATH are converted, but 
> it doesn't say
> >> >how to control any additional ones in runtime.
> >> 
> >> The main reason for this is that it isn't possible.  Don't 
> know why you think
> >> that this list is flexible.  It isn't.
> >
> >I didn't see what would preclude the code which says "now translate
> >PATH variable" from one format to another from saying "now translate
> >PATH variable and all other variables listed in variable
> >CYGWIN_TRANSLATABLE"
> >
> >Is there a reason why we couldn't have such "CYGWIN_TRANSLATABLE"
> >variable, which would list names (or patterns) of other 
> variables that
> >are to be translated in fashion similair to "PATH" variable ?
> 
> Maybe you are misinterpreting what I said.  It isn't possible 
> because it
> isn't implemented.  My observation of "Don't know why..." was 
> basically
> aimed at the fact that you seemed to be under the impression that this
> was some kind of undocumented feature.
> 
> >What efforts do you estimate it would take to whip up such code ?
> >
> >Do you think such feature wouldn't be very useful ?  Why ?
> 
> I'm not sure what estimates you're looking for.  It would 
> probably take
> me a couple of hours of programming to do this.
> 
> Would it be useful?  Since this is the first time that I can 
> recall that
> anyone has asked for this, I think it would be only marginally useful.
> If you are controlling the environment to such a state that 
> you can add
> a CYGWIN_TRANSLATABLE variable, then just set the environment 
> variables
> using posix paths.  I believe that Cygwin already handles the 
> ones that
> should be handled.
> 
> However, as usual, if someone wants to contribute a patch, I will
> consider it's inclusion in the sources.
> 
> In case anyone is interested in submitting a patch, please first check
> out the Contributing link at http://cygwin.com/ .  Read it thoroughly
> and, when it is time to provide the patch, make sure that you follow
> all of the rules with regard to the ChangeLog entry, patch format,
> and coding styles.
> 
> cgf
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