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Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 07:06:55 -0500
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Subject: Re: Unset TMP/TEMP in profile? (was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-67)
From: Chris Sutcliffe <ir0nh34d AT gmail DOT com>
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On 7 March 2011 17:46, Andy Koppe wrote:
> On 7 March 2011 22:13, Ken Brown wrote:
>> On 3/7/2011 8:42 AM, Andy Koppe wrote:
>>> In the current 3.9-3, TEMP and TMP are unset in ~/.bashrc, as
>>> suggested here by Corinna. Thing is, ~/.bashrc is only sourced for
>>> non-login shells, yet the default console/mintty/rxvt shortcuts all
>>> invoke bash as a login shell. In other words, this change might as
>>> well not have been made as far as the vast majority of users are
>>> concerned.
>>
>> I don't think that's right. =A0The default ~/.bash_profile sources ~/.ba=
shrc,
>> so the latter does get sourced for login shells.
>
> You're right. I was under the wrong impression that that was new with
> base-files 4.0.

FWIW, I'd prefer to keep the unsetting of TEMP/TMP in ~/.bashrc (i.e.
based on user preference) vs. /etc/profile, since I have multiple
accounts on one of my machines and with my 'work' account, if I
cygstart several different native Windows apps without TEMP/TMP being
set they don't play nice.  I realize I could write wrapper scripts as
per Angelo's suggestion, but I'd prefer not to.

As the old adage goes, if it ain't broke, don't fix it...

Chris

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