Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Sven_K=F6hler?= <skoehler AT upb DOT de>
Subject:  /etc/profile always does a "cd $HOME"
Date:  Sun, 22 May 2005 21:19:25 +0200
Lines: 17
Message-ID: <d6qm36$var$1@sea.gmane.org>
Mime-Version:  1.0
Content-Type:  text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15
Content-Transfer-Encoding:  7bit
User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317)
X-IsSubscribed: yes

Hi,

i'd like to use cygwin from a normal windows-app. The problem is, that i
need a login-shell, so that all environment-vars are properly set. The
problem: bash -li always changes the current workdir!

IMHO, executing "bash -li" shouldn't change the workdir.
No other system i know does that. Script may rely on that behaviour.

/etc/profile contains the like
  cd "$HOME"

That line cannot easily be removed. Starting the Cygwin-Link installed
by the setup wouldn't cd to ~ anymore. This behaviours is liked by most
users i guess (including my own).

Any suggestions, how the situation could be improved?


--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/