X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 10:15:16 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Unset TMP/TEMP in profile? (was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-67) Message-ID: <20091201091515.GC30043@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4B14573C.3040409@alice.it> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Nov 30 20:53, Robert Pendell wrote: > On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Angelo Graziosi > wrote: > > Robert Pendell wrote: > >> > >> P.S. - On linux (when I tested) TEMP, TMP, and TMPDIR were not set and > >> patch defaulted to /tmp. > > > > I noticed that too... > > > > Ken Brown wrote: > >> > >> That's precisely why I suggested unsetting TEMP and TMP in /etc/profile. > >> Then things should work as in linux. > > > > Indeed. But a question emerges: what does it happen if one starts a Windows > > application, which needs TEMP or TMP, from Cygwin? > > > > For example, GSview (*) can view ps.bz2 or pdf.bz2 files uncompressing them > > into $TEMP, so it fails if TEMP is not defined, and > > > > $ gsview foo.pdf.bz2 > > > > is broken! > > > > This is only an example of problems which can emerge unsetting TEMP. > > > > Ciao, > > Angelo. > > > > Actually I had thought about that and I found that if you > intentionally unset all the variables it defaults back to the system > defined one which is dependent on the current user in Windows. > Basically what TEMP and TMP is defined to in Windows itself. This is > like the behavior in Linux. I'm wondering if /etc/profile is actually the right place for unsetting TMP and TEMP. What about etc/defaults/etc/skel/.bashrc instead? It allows every user simple access to the setting of TMP and TEMP and it could be seasoned with a user-visible comment. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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