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Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:22:43 +0400
From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon AT freemail DOT ru>
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Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!

>> > Dead on, thanks!  The definitions of tmp and temp in /etc/profile result
>> > in a double definition of the %TMP% and %TEMP% dos variables from the
>> > .Net applications POV and it's too dumb to handle that gracefully.
>> 
>> > So the solution is, either we drop the tmp and temp definitions in
>> > /etc/profile, or old .net apps should be started only after calling
>> > `unset tmp temp' in bash.
>> 
>> > Btw., tmp and temp are not preserved this way in tcsh's profile scripts.
>> > So I'm wondering why we do it in /etc/profile.  Can somebody give me a
>> > management summary?
>> 
>> I guess that was an attempt to fix something that isn't made things right, but
>> left there for years.
>> I would rather propose to solve it the other way around and use /etc/fstab
>> functionality to mount Cygwin's /tmp to current user's %TEMP% folder.
>> I don't know, how would that work in multi-user environment, though.

> POSIX tools usually expect that system paths are shared between
> processes.  Consider client-server situations with shared files
> (sockets, fifos) in /tmp.  So, no, this is not a generic solution
> for Cygwin tools.  Any user or admin is free to do that locally,
> of course.

%SystemRoot%/Temp then ?


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Andrey Repin (anrdaemon AT freemail DOT ru) 29.02.2012, <16:21>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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