Portability: exporting `path' causes indigestion in CygWin. Since

  it's virtually impossible for a child `rc' process to inherit `path'
  (which I consider a bug, but it's not going to be fixed now), simply
  don't export `path'.

2 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 1d86e88..8e7181d 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -629,3 +629,10 @@ Changes since rc-1.5b2
   sys_errlist[] where not.
 
   Feature: replace `-V' with `version' variable.
+
+1999-10-14
+
+  Portability: exporting `path' causes indigestion in CygWin.  Since
+  it's virtually impossible for a child `rc' process to inherit `path'
+  (which I consider a bug, but it's not going to be fixed now), simply
+  don't export `path'.
diff --git a/hash.c b/hash.c
index 9376ad4..fd182cc 100644
--- a/hash.c
+++ b/hash.c
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ extern void initenv(char **envp) {
 
 static bool var_exportable(char *s) {
 	static char *notforexport[] = {
-		"apid", "apids", "ifs", "pid", "version", "*"
+		"apid", "apids", "ifs", "path", "pid", "version", "*"
 	};
 	int i;
 	for (i = 0; i < arraysize(notforexport); i++)