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Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 07:29:06 -0700 (PDT)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com
Subject: RE: FW: Can not config sshd
To: Prentis Brooks <prentis AT aol DOT net>,
        Jason Tishler <Jason DOT Tishler AT dothill DOT com>
Cc: cygwin <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
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--- Prentis Brooks <prentis AT aol DOT net> wrote:
> I have not defined this user's home dir in the environment, only in
> /etc/passwd.... if there is no home dir defined in ENV, does it default to
> //?
> 

No, bash defaults HOME to / and then that get's prepended to the path name
after it resolves the tilde character ~ sor ~/myfile bcomes //myfile.  Now the
problem with //myfile is that // is translated to \\ and \\myfile as a server
doesn't exist.  The time it takes to eventually time out is directly related to
the number of domains your associated with * the timeout period * the number of
retries.  This is the reason we now have /cygdrive instead of using // to
denote an unmounted device/directory.

Cheers,

=====
---
   Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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