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Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes:
> It's ignored as $HOME in the Cygwin DLL.  It's apparently not ignored in
> the base-files package, but that's another problem.

...to which the possible solutions are:

1. Not hand a botched HOME environment variable to Cygwin processes.

2. Do the same checks as the Cygwin DLL and fall back to some more sensible
default if HOME is botched.

3. Ignore the issue.

So which one?


Regards,
Achim.


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