X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,KAM_THEBAT X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 02:51:14 +0400 From: Andrey Repin Reply-To: Andrey Repin Message-ID: <1113646302.20120229025114@mtu-net.ru> To: Corinna Vinschen Subject: Re: 1.7.10/1.7.11: .Net programs started from a cygwin console may fail. In-Reply-To: <20120228141754.GA6518@calimero.vinschen.de> References: <4F4BA00E.2020806@prover.com> <20120228125601.GC23440@calimero.vinschen.de> <20120228141754.GA6518@calimero.vinschen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > Dead on, thanks! The definitions of tmp and temp in /etc/profile result > in a double definition of the %TMP% and %TEMP% dos variables from the > .Net applications POV and it's too dumb to handle that gracefully. > So the solution is, either we drop the tmp and temp definitions in > /etc/profile, or old .net apps should be started only after calling > `unset tmp temp' in bash. > Btw., tmp and temp are not preserved this way in tcsh's profile scripts. > So I'm wondering why we do it in /etc/profile. Can somebody give me a > management summary? I guess that was an attempt to fix something that isn't made things right, but left there for years. I would rather propose to solve it the other way around and use /etc/fstab functionality to mount Cygwin's /tmp to current user's %TEMP% folder. I don't know, how would that work in multi-user environment, though. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 29.02.2012, <02:46> Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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