Mail Archives: cygwin/2012/04/05/11:50:19
Corinna Vinschen writes:
> The weird home dir could be a bug in Cygwin. I can't reproduce it,
> but I could think of a reason. Do you have a directory called
> /mnt/userdata or an account called userdata in /etc/passwd? Anyway,
> I applied a patch which should result in:
No account there with the name "userdata", but there was an empty
directory named /mnt/userdata. I've deleted it since the mountpoint
will work without it, let's see if the issue comes up again.
> $ cd ~\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?
> : No such file or directory.
I ended up in /mnt/userdata, but the really interesting issue was if I
would then cd into "All Users" for instance, the prompt would show:
~\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\/All Users
I had to do a 'cd ~otheruser' to a user that has a home dir in passwd
before tcsh forgot about that association, IIRC. I can test that again
if it is of any importance.
> As you know, Cygwin has to map between Windows SID and POSIX uid/gid
> when mapping user accounts. That's what /etc/passwd and /etc/group are
> for. If a file belongs to a user for which there's no entry in
> /etc/passwd (same for group -> /etc/group), then the uid is set to -1.
> ls then prints somthing like this:
[...]
I don't have any problems with the question marks showing up in
directory listings, I would just prefer if a user that has no home
directory set in /etc/passwd is not offered as an expansion for '~'.
But as there are likely more important problems to solve, if things stay
as they arethis is also OK.
Regards,
Achim.
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