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If I have an environment variable set up in windows xp, e.g. JAVA_HOME I can access this from cygwin. But if I change that environment variable through My Computer whilst cygwin is running, cygwin does not reflect the change. Is there anyway to get cygwin to update without having to restart it?

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For command line applications, they will not recognize new changes like path until you restart them. Likewise, you can have a desktop icon shortcut and a quick launch shortcut and these can have different settings. The main EXE will accept changes, but will need to be restarted.

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No, but you can of course set it manually, using export JAVA_HOME=<whatever>. It's not like starting a new Cygwin shell takes a long time though ...

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It doesn't take long, but then you have to navigate to the appropriate directory. And suppose you had three Cygwin windows open ... – Eric Wilson Oct 21 '11 at 19:39
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If you export the variable, then you only need to restart the process.

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