delorie.com/archives/browse.cgi   search  
Mail Archives: cygwin/2014/10/28/21:35:31

X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com
DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id
:list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post
:list-help:sender:date:from:reply-to:message-id:to:subject
:in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type
:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=GiRx64cnPDrJbMIM
bdeLS3lxpaRRlgWMXmP0rFR1bz9D+zRDuaW3Ua1zK7a3EtoUBJXkU8MMPIZonsOa
+2hGnAZmL8/YzCcsM5/LEIA4U/pg7E4gb0d8+NAlWPawBqfNE+Weq1aZbafx6ZhX
iFPlTWOkvr7g4qMmbS3gXdDtUKM=
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id
:list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post
:list-help:sender:date:from:reply-to:message-id:to:subject
:in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type
:content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=O+ZleNPP5qK2Mi6DFj4rJS
1b6ZE=; b=NuTKiV9LEMELMMWBKVS2ufPVx+5a0oK8nJH9Y5cbpRjyuFm1cQpVkm
kK+hgFdtSrqew9qpW12YvgBCiJrwd+/Qzx75BiyjZLakWRJ14PB8bwf54Z1tDlNr
YbAUHmWMxqSE8WfHUvzm1yqlujF7jZinmPek11WQrUQc/3d8XlaEg=
Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Id: <cygwin.cygwin.com>
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none
X-Virus-Found: No
X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-3.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_40,FREEMAIL_FROM,KAM_THEBAT,SPF_SOFTFAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.2
X-HELO: smtp.ht-systems.ru
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 04:21:28 +0300
From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon AT yandex DOT ru>
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Message-ID: <1107228111.20141029042128@yandex.ru>
To: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: BUG: cygwin warning: barfs on domain-based-mboxes; env corrupted by login(-p disabled)
In-Reply-To: <20141028110312.GH20607@calimero.vinschen.de>
References: <544F3313 DOT 6050604 AT tlinx DOT org> <20141028110312 DOT GH20607 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de>
MIME-Version: 1.0
X-IsSubscribed: yes

Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!

> On Oct 27 23:09, Linda Walsh wrote:
>> cygwin warning:
>>  MS-DOS style path detected: /usr/spool/mail/Bliss/law
>>  Preferred POSIX equivalent is: /usr/spool/mail/Bliss/law
>>  CYGWIN environment variable option "nodosfilewarning" turns off this
>> warning.
>>  Consult the user's guide for more details about POSIX paths:
>>    http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#using-pathnames

> The next Cygwin release will have CYGWIN=dosfilewarning set to OFF
> by default.

> If anybody thinks it's really worth to keep this option available
> and ON by default, please speak up.

I don't think it's worth the hassle. What little of the programs that is
unable to deal with native paths are printing obvious enough error messages to
convince the user that they should change their habits.


--
WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon AT yandex DOT ru) 29.10.2014, <4:19>

Sorry for my terrible english...


--
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

- Raw text -


  webmaster     delorie software   privacy  
  Copyright © 2019   by DJ Delorie     Updated Jul 2019