X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,TW_YG,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4D7560B6.9030700@towo.net> References: <4B14573C.3040409@alice.it> <20091201091515.GC30043@calimero.vinschen.de> <4D7560B6.9030700@towo.net> Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 09:51:52 +0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Unset TMP/TEMP in profile? (was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-67) From: Andy Koppe To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 7 March 2011 22:48, Thomas Wolff wrote: >>>>> 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?) Yep. The following variables are translated to POSIX format on Cygwin startup and back to Windows format when invoking a non-Cygwin program: PATH HOME LD_LIBRARY_PATH TMPDIR TMP TEMP Andy -- 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