X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <4B14573C.3040409@alice.it> <20091201091515.GC30043@calimero.vinschen.de> <4D755880.2040800@cornell.edu> Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 07:06:55 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Unset TMP/TEMP in profile? (was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-67) From: Chris Sutcliffe To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 17:46, Andy Koppe wrote: > On 7 March 2011 22:13, Ken Brown wrote: >> On 3/7/2011 8:42 AM, Andy Koppe wrote: >>> In the current 3.9-3, TEMP and TMP are unset in ~/.bashrc, as >>> suggested here by Corinna. Thing is, ~/.bashrc is only sourced for >>> non-login shells, yet the default console/mintty/rxvt shortcuts all >>> invoke bash as a login shell. In other words, this change might as >>> well not have been made as far as the vast majority of users are >>> concerned. >> >> I don't think that's right. =A0The default ~/.bash_profile sources ~/.ba= shrc, >> so the latter does get sourced for login shells. > > You're right. I was under the wrong impression that that was new with > base-files 4.0. FWIW, I'd prefer to keep the unsetting of TEMP/TMP in ~/.bashrc (i.e. based on user preference) vs. /etc/profile, since I have multiple accounts on one of my machines and with my 'work' account, if I cygstart several different native Windows apps without TEMP/TMP being set they don't play nice. I realize I could write wrapper scripts as per Angelo's suggestion, but I'd prefer not to. As the old adage goes, if it ain't broke, don't fix it... Chris --=20 Chris Sutcliffe http://emergedesktop.org http://www.google.com/profiles/ir0nh34d -- 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