Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #104, comment 3


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Jul 21, 2016, 11:43:58 PM (8 years ago)
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  • Ticket #104, comment 3

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    11I implemented the task in r1657. This change makes dash convert backslashes to forward ones in PATH-like variables at startup *and* convert them back before executing any external command (so that old OS/2 tools won't freak out). However, by default, dash only does conversion on the PATH variable itself. The rest of the variables needs to be listed in a special environment variable called `PATHLIKE_VARS` (which takes comma separated values) prior to dash startup.
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    3 I'm still thinking if we should support more variables by default (i.e. w/o the need to specify them in PATHLIKE_VARS), like TMIDIR (used e.g. in ffmpeg configure) or HOME (also frequently used). The question is which ones exactly. As this list may be pretty big...
     3I'm still thinking if we should support more variables by default (i.e. w/o the need to specify them in PATHLIKE_VARS), like TMPDIR (used e.g. in ffmpeg configure) or HOME (also frequently used). The question is which ones exactly. As this list may be pretty big...