Mail Archives: cygwin/2009/05/08/05:54:17
On Fri, May 8, 2009 10:32 am, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 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
OK, I'll also move the umask setting above the creation of home (there was
comment in the thread). I don't follow the -developer list. Would it be
worth me subscribing?
J.
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