From: "James Johnston" <JamesJ@motionview3d.com>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: RE: /etc/profile
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 16:11:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <017501cd7fae$044a07d0$0cde1770$@motionview3d.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20120821T153030-47@post.gmane.org>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 14:39
> Subject: Re: /etc/profile
>
>
> Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com> writes:
> > Unfortunately, at least your windows system dll directory has to be on
> > PATH, or cygwin1.dll will fail to load, so blindly removing ALL
> > windows paths from PATH is wrong.
>
> At that point cygwin1.dll is already loaded and so far I haven't seen
anything
> not working due to that change. But yes, I didn't think of that, so I'm
curious
> why it seems to work as nicely as it does.
>
Read section "Search order for desktop applications" at "Dynamic-Link
Library Search Order" at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms682586(v=vs.85).as
px
Bottom line, you don't need system32 in the path for DLL loading to work. I
seem to recall that some earlier versions of Windows actually did not
include system32 in the PATH by default.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-21 15:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-21 15:03 /etc/profile Achim Gratz
2012-08-21 15:35 ` /etc/profile Eric Blake
2012-08-21 15:57 ` /etc/profile Achim Gratz
2012-08-21 16:11 ` James Johnston [this message]
2012-08-21 16:50 ` /etc/profile Eric Blake
2012-08-21 17:21 ` /etc/profile Achim Gratz
2012-08-21 19:27 ` /etc/profile Eric Blake
2012-08-21 20:48 ` /etc/profile Achim Gratz
2012-08-21 17:24 ` /etc/profile Earnie Boyd
2012-08-22 19:42 ` /etc/profile David Sastre Medina
2012-08-22 20:10 ` /etc/profile Achim Gratz
2012-08-22 20:15 ` /etc/profile David Sastre Medina
2012-08-22 20:50 ` /etc/profile Achim Gratz
2012-08-25 15:45 ` /etc/profile Achim Gratz
2012-08-25 21:26 ` /etc/profile Achim Gratz
2012-08-22 20:36 ` /etc/profile Daniel Colascione
2012-08-22 20:51 ` /etc/profile Achim Gratz
2012-08-22 20:55 ` /etc/profile Christopher Faylor
2012-08-22 21:18 ` /etc/profile Achim Gratz
2012-08-23 6:35 ` /etc/profile Andrew DeFaria
2012-08-22 20:55 ` /etc/profile Andrey Repin
2012-08-22 22:52 ` /etc/profile Achim Gratz
2012-08-22 22:08 ` /etc/profile David Sastre Medina
2012-08-23 5:54 ` /etc/profile Christopher Faylor
2012-08-23 6:19 ` /etc/profile David Sastre Medina
2012-08-23 10:03 ` /etc/profile Achim Gratz
2012-08-23 10:29 ` /etc/profile L Anderson
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