X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_HELO_PASS,TW_YG X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4D7560B6.9030700@towo.net> Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 23:48:22 +0100 From: Thomas Wolff User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Unset TMP/TEMP in profile? (was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-67) References: <4B14573C.3040409@alice.it> <20091201091515.GC30043@calimero.vinschen.de> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Just commenting on one aspects: >>> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Angelo Graziosi wrote: >>>> ... >>>> 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? A Windows application is likely to fail on cygpath-transformed values of TEMP and TMP anyway, or am I missing something? (E.g. is there some implicit back-transformation if cygwin starts a Windows application?) Thomas -- 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