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Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 12:13:16 -0800 (PST)
From: "Peter A. Castro" <doctor AT fruitbat DOT org>
To: Luke Kendall <luke DOT kendall AT cisra DOT canon DOT com DOT au>
cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: zsh startup oddity
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On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Luke Kendall wrote:

> We found, on a release of Cygwin that's now probably almost a year old,
> that:
>
>    If the /home directory had been created by Cygwin mkdir, and
>    If the /etc/passwd shell specified shell to run was zsh,
>    Then /etc/passwd would not run $HOME/.zprofile
>
> (I.e. after starting a login zsh, you'd have to explicitly source
> ~/.zlogin or whatever).
>
> But /etc/passwd would source $HOME/.zprofile if /home had been created
> by Windows Explorer.

I am unable to reproduce this.  Are you using the zsh.bat file provided
or a custom startup bat file or just running the shell by itself?  Please
make sure you are using the '-l' option to force a login shell.  zsh has
greatly changed in a years time.  Please consider upgrading to a later
release.

> We used getfacl to examine the ACLs of directories created by mkdir and
> directories created by Explorer in detail.
>
> We used both setfacl and Explorer's GUI ACL thing to adjust the ACL
> until they appeared identical (both to getfacl and to the Explorer GUI
> ACL viewing thing), but with no joy: there still seemed to be a
> difference between Cygwin-created directories and Explorer-created ones.
>
> It went into our "to further explore one day" basket.
>
> Perhaps the problem has gone away now.  I just thought I'd mention it
> in case this was interesting information for anyone.
>
> Brian Dessent's comment about setting the ACL for c:/cygwin reminded me
> of it.
>
> luke

-- 
Peter A. Castro <doctor AT fruitbat DOT org> or <Peter DOT Castro AT oracle DOT com>
 	"Cats are just autistic Dogs" -- Dr. Tony Attwood

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