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Subject:	Re: base-files (was: [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-47)
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On May  6 14:54, John Morrison wrote:
> On Wed, May 6, 2009 2:25 pm, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > I just uploaded a new Cygwin 1.7 test release, 1.7.0-47.
> >
> > What's new in contrast to 1.7.0-46
> > ===================================
> >
> > - Never use HOMEDRIVE/HOMEPATH to construct a default home directory for
> >   the current user.  The mechanism to evaluate the pathname is now:
> >
> >   - If $HOME is already set in the envirnment, use it.
> >   - Otherwise, if /etc/passwd contains a non-empty homedir for the
> >     current user, use it.
> >   - Otherwise, default to /home/<USERNAME>.
> >
> >   This circumvents a few installation problems and decouples the Cygwin
> >   homedir by default from the Windows profile directory, which
> >   especially starting with Vista results in performance problems due to
> >   the new Explorer behaviour concerning "shared" files.  If you want to
> >   use the Windows profile dir as home dir, set $HOME or tweak your
> >   /etc/passwd entry accordingly.
> 
> I'll change /etc/profile to reflect the above text.
> 
> Could this result in situations where the skel files arn't copied?

Yes, that was one of the reasons I changed it.  The old way to eval the
user's HOME dir could result in the skel files not being created because
the HOME directory already existed.  The non-existance of HOME triggers
writing the skel files.  Now the skel files typically are created
because /home/$USER doesn't exist when bash is started the first time.

> > - Set umask to 0022 by default, rather than to 0000.
> 
> /etc/profile has a line
> umask 022
> 
> do you want me to remove/modify it?

Keep it in.  It doesn't hurt and it's the right place to change
the umask if the admin wants another value.


Corinna

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