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Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 09:51:52 +0000
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Subject: Re: Unset TMP/TEMP in profile? (was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-67)
From: Andy Koppe <andy DOT koppe AT gmail DOT com>
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On 7 March 2011 22:48, Thomas Wolff wrote:
>>>>> Indeed. But a question emerges: what does it happen if one starts a
>>>>> Windows
>>>>> application, which needs TEMP or TMP, from Cygwin?
>
> A Windows application is likely to fail on cygpath-transformed values of
> TEMP and TMP anyway, or am I missing something?
> (E.g. is there some implicit back-transformation if cygwin starts a Windows
> application?)

Yep. The following variables are translated to POSIX format on Cygwin
startup and back to Windows format when invoking a non-Cygwin program:

PATH HOME LD_LIBRARY_PATH TMPDIR TMP TEMP

Andy

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