Mail Archives: cygwin/2011/03/09/14:30:00
Am 09.03.2011 10:26, schrieb Corinna Vinschen:
> On Mar 9 08:25, Andy Koppe wrote:
>> On 8 March 2011 15:03, Andy Koppe wrote:
>>>> On Mar 8 13:49, David Sastre wrote:
>>>>> 2011/3/8, Chris Sutcliffe wrote:
>>>>>> FWIW, I'd prefer to keep the unsetting of TEMP/TMP in ~/.bashrc (i.e.
>>>>>> based on user preference) vs. /etc/profile, since I have multiple
>>>>>> accounts on one of my machines and with my 'work' account, if I
>>>>>> cygstart several different native Windows apps without TEMP/TMP being
>>>>>> set they don't play nice. I realize I could write wrapper scripts as
>>>>>> per Angelo's suggestion, but I'd prefer not to.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As the old adage goes, if it ain't broke, don't fix it...
>>>>> As discussed in the ITA thread, one of the goals of base-files-4.0 is
>>>>> not relying
>>>>> in users' config files at all regarding any item that needs to be
>>>>> defined (or undefined :)
>>>>> So if TMP/TEMP has to be unset, or set to /tmp per default, or any
>>>>> other default
>>>>> decided here, that is something to be done in /etc/profile, IMHO.
>>> Fair point. That avoids the situation where users with existing home
>>> directories don't get a change.
>> One more thought on this: LANG is set to C.UTF-8 in
>> /etc/profile.d/lang.{c,}sh, which allows users to change or delete
>> that without stopping /etc/profile from being updated. This approach
>> might be appropriate here as well.
> That's certainly feasible in some way, but I don't understand what
> you're trying to accomplish. In what situation would this have to be
> changed on a per-system level? Why isn't it sufficient that the
> user can change it in the own user profiles?
For example if cygwin is still installed on a FAT drive (I know ...) it
may be useful (for all users) to switch /tmp to an NTFS directory (e.g.
XWin used to fail with a FAT /tmp for a while).
Thomas
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