Mail Archives: cygwin/2009/05/08/05:33:01
Hi John,
On May 6 16:33, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 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.
after a short discussion on cygwin-developers starting here
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2009-05/msg00001.html
I'm wondering if it wouldn't be better to default directly to /
if the user's home dir can't be created or accessed. It would
also just simplify /etc/profile:
--- profile.ORIG 2009-05-08 11:28:55.456869200 +0200
+++ profile 2009-05-08 11:31:41.174558600 +0200
@@ -64,12 +64,7 @@ if [ ! -d "${HOME}" ]; then
done
else
echo "${HOME} could not be created."
-
- { [ -d "${TEMP}" ] && HOME="${TEMP}"; } ||
- { [ -d "${TMP}" ] && HOME="${TMP}"; } ||
- { [ -d /tmp ] && HOME=/tmp; } ||
- HOME=/
-
+ HOME=/
echo "Setting HOME to ${HOME}."
fi
fi
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Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat
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