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Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2014 08:28:50 +0300
From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
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To: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin@cygwin.com>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: RFC: 1.7.33 problem with user's home directory
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Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!

>> On Nov 11 12:14, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> > On Nov 11 11:05, Achim Gratz wrote:
>> > > Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes:
>> > > > 1. Add a setting to /etc/nsswitch.conf which allows to specify one of
>> > > >   the above:
>> > > > 
>> > > >     home: [unix|win|home]...
>> > > > 
>> > > >    - "unix" means, set pw_dir to unixHomeDirectory
>> > > >    - "win" means, set pw_dir to homeDirectory
>> > > >    - "home" means, set pw_dir to /home/$USER
>> > > >    - Multiple entries are possible.
>> > > >    - Default in the absence of this setting is: always set pw_dir to
>> > > >      /home/$USER.
>> > > 
>> > > Looks good, but maybe allow the AD attribute to be explicitly named (e.g.
>> > > cygwinHomeDirectory).
>> > 
>> > Cygwin schema extension? :)
>> 
>> I just created a patch and a matching snapshot on
>> https://cygwin.com/snapshots/
>> 
>> The new stuff is still missing documentation, [...]

> If you're wondering why I didn't create a test release yet, it's all
> about this dreaded documentation.

> Did I mention already how much I hate writing documentation?  Yes?
> Whatever.  I really hate writing documentation!  It's infinitely worse
> than writing the code.

Every 10 lines of documentation I write for my projects make me want to
rewrite at least one line of the code. Because it feels stupid now, that I've
explained, how it works.

> I'm just working on the documentation and it's going forward really
> tenaciously, so I felt the need to vent^Wkeep you informed.

> When I have a more or less working piece of documentation, I'll create 
> a new Cygwin test release again, for installation via setup.

> I'd appreciate if those not shy to install developer snapshots would
> give this stuff a try in the meantime.

I think I'm about to make a script to install snapshots, at this rate it seems
the right thing to do.
Is there a direct way to query for the latest snapshot?
I'm not very fond of HTML parsing.

> Also, if you don't understand the settings, or some of the settings,
> feel free to ask.  The developer (that's me, I guess) sometimes just
> doesn't know if the description makes sense or not.  It will very likely
> help to make the documentation better.


--
WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 05.12.2014, <08:16>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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