X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4D78E2E3.8030309@dronecode.org.uk> Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 14:40:35 +0000 From: Jon TURNEY User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 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: <20091201091515.GC30043@calimero.vinschen.de> <4D755880.2040800@cornell.edu> <20110308134803.GA1050@calimero.vinschen.de> <20110309092648.GM12899@calimero.vinschen.de> <4D77D524.80401@towo.net> In-Reply-To: <4D77D524.80401@towo.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 On 09/03/2011 19:29, Thomas Wolff wrote: > For example if cygwin is still installed on a FAT drive (I know ...) it may be > useful (for all users) to switch /tmp to an NTFS directory (e.g. XWin used to > fail with a FAT /tmp for a while). This is wrong on several counts. XWin still fails with /tmp on FAT. This is because XWin uses hardlinks to create it's lock file, and cygwin can't support hardlinks on FAT because the filesystem doesn't support them. XWin uses the literal path /tmp. A lock file which appears in a different place depending on an environment variable wouldn't be much of a lock file. If you actually have this problem with XWin, you should use the server option -nolock. -- 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