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Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 10:33:16 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: RFC: 1.7.33 problem with user's home directory
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On Nov 10 23:19, Warren Young wrote:
> On Nov 10, 2014, at 6:38 PM, Jeffrey Altman <jaltman AT secure-endpoints DOT com=
> wrote:
> > My personal preference would be for the Cygwin Home directory to be
> > created under
> >=20
> >  %HOMEPATH%\AppData\Roaming\Cygwin
>=20
> That=E2=80=99s certainly the way you=E2=80=99re *supposed* to do it on Wi=
ndows.
>=20
> There=E2=80=99s some value in using %USERPROFILE% for this, however:
>=20
> 1. c:\Users\ShortName is directly analogous to /home/shortname on
> Linux or /Users/ShortName on OS X.
>=20
> 2. Recent versions of Windows have given up on the =E2=80=9CMy=E2=80=9D p=
refix for the
> main directories within your user profile directory which happens to
> make them match the scheme used on Ubuntu, Fedora, OS X, etc.  Finger
> memory like =E2=80=9Ccd ~/Desktop=E2=80=9D will serve you better if Cygwi=
n doesn=E2=80=99t
> bury the user directory underneath AppData somewhere.
>=20
> You can paper over #2 with symlinks, of course, as I already do while
> using the current c:\cygwin\home scheme.  It would just be nice to
> avoid the need to create those symlinks.  Symlinks don=E2=80=99t always b=
ehave
> exactly the same as real directories, for one thing.

Use mount points in /etc/fstab or /etc/fstab.d.  Mount points usually
behave like real directories.


Corinna

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