Environment variable documentation

Tue Dec 1 09:45:00 GMT 2009

On Nov 30 17:04, Ken Brown wrote:
> The discussion currently going on in the thread
>> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-11/threads.html#00892
>> makes me think that the section on environment variables in the
> user's guide (http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/setup-env.html)
> could use some expansion. For example, it's not stated explicitly
> which Windows environment variables get imported into Cygwin (all of
> them?), nor is there a complete list of variables containing paths

Yes, all of them.
> that get converted to Unix format. PATH, HOME, and LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> are mentioned, but TMPDIR, TMP, and TEMP are omitted. I think the
> last three should be listed, along with the suggestion that users
> might want to unset them in the Cygwin environment.

Yes, TMPDIR, TMP, and TEMP are handled the same way as PATH, HOME, and
LD_LIBRARY_PATH. These six variables are the set of environment
variables which are subject to path conversion from Windows to POSIX and
vice versa.
> I would be willing to take a stab at writing a patch if the
> developers think this would be useful.

That sounds like a nice idea.
Thanks,
Corinna
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