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Date: | Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:17:36 -0500 |
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Subject: | Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-67 |
From: | Robert Pendell <shinji AT elite-systems DOT org> |
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On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Ken Brown wrote: > On 11/30/2009 11:23 AM, Robert Pendell wrote: >>> >>> Ken Brown wrote: >>>> >>>> Nevertheless, it's somewhat startling to see permissions change as a >>>> side >>>> effect of patching a file. One simple way to prevent this is to unset >>>> TMP >>>> and TEMP in /etc/profile. Is there any downside to doing this? A search >>>> of >>>> the mailing list archives shows that the default /etc/profile used to = do >>>> this. I didn't dig long enough to find out why it changed. > >> I guess a side question here is if TMP does not exist then should it >> be defaulting to the system wide TEMP variable, the one defined in >> .bashrc for the user or should it even be created at all? =C2=A0I posted= an >> strace and it shows TEMP set to /tmp but patch still uses TMP instead >> and since TMP doesn't exist it looks like cygwin sets TMP to the >> system wide one by default. > > Are you sure TMP doesn't exist? =C2=A0On my system TMP is set in the Wind= ows > environment. =C2=A0Cygwin just takes that variable and converts the filen= ame to > Unix format. =C2=A0So unless you unset TMP somewhere in your startup file= s, TMP > will exist (at least in XP; I don't have experience with other systems). > >> P.S. - On linux (when I tested) TEMP, TMP, and TMPDIR were not set and >> patch defaulted to /tmp. > > That's precisely why I suggested unsetting TEMP and TMP in /etc/profile. > =C2=A0Then things should work as in linux. > > Ken > Wow... It is there. Wonder where it came from. >.< Looks like it is standard too as I just checked a Windows XP box and that had it too. I am so embarrassed now with that mix-up. Robert Pendell shinji AT elite-systems DOT org CAcert Assurer "A perfect world is one of chaos." -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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