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Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 14:57:42 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Patch to /etc/profile to deal with $HOME with a space
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On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 07:33:02PM -0000, John Morrison wrote:
>> I have just set up Cygwin, and noticed that my default home was under my
>> "Documents and Settings" directory (not yet having run mkpasswd). However,
>> the /etc/profile setup which tries to only create the warning message
>> about running mkpasswd and mkgroup once can't deal with a HOME environment
>> variable with a space in it. Here is a patch to allow that to work:
>
>Thanks,
>
>I'm away on a course at the moment and don't have access to the machine
>with the files I use to generate the package.  I'll be back home on
>Friday, I'll try and get something out over the weekend or by mid-week at
>the latest.

Since this has been a persistent problem, pretty much since the inception
of base-files, can I request that you do an audit of everything in base files
and quote all unquoted access to environment variables in the package?  It
seems like we just keep running across these problems in bits and pieces and
maybe it's time for a concerted effort to wipe these types of problems out.

cgf

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