X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 13:03:47 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Unset TMP/TEMP in profile? (was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-67) Message-ID: <20091201180347.GE27815@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <4B14573C DOT 3040409 AT alice DOT it> <20091201091515 DOT GC30043 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 11:32:43AM -0500, Robert Pendell wrote: >They are not reset but during an strace I discovered that cygwin will >internally default to the system defined TEMP if one isn't defined in >cygwin. In other words if it has been unset. This is similar to >linux using /tmp by default if none is defined at all. I don't know how you could come to that conclusion from reading strace output. AFAIK, Cygwin does not treat TEMP specially. This thread certainly is a tempest in a teapot. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple