Exec and parent environment [attn tcltk maintainer]

Thu Feb 2 13:49:00 GMT 2006

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According to Steve Smith on 2/2/2006 5:17 AM:
>> I have a similar problem to that reported before under this subject title.
> When I type "env" the environment appears fine. However, when I start a
> tclsh and type
>> puts [ exec sh -c "env" ]
>> the environment is almost empty - this is new behaviour, the whole 
> environment got fully passed through until recently.

Sounds like YA case of
http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2006-01/msg00938.html. tclsh is one of
the few programs in /bin that does not link against cygwin1.dll, but uses
Windows directly. So it probably needs to be taught how to interact with
cygwin's updated environment scheme.
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Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
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