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Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 21:17:02 -0700
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On 9/26/2016 7:18 PM, Linda Walsh wrote:
> Ernie Rael wrote:
>> I just moved the cygwin installation. The "last" peculiarity I ran 
>> into was that the login shell, with the shortcut 
>> "F:\cygwin64\bin\mintty.exe -i /Cygwin-Terminal.ico -", a ps showed
>>
>>     /cygdrive/c/cygwin64/bin/bash
>>
>> instead of /usr/bin/bash
>>
>> I tracked this down the the windows setting for SHELL, the one you 
>> get to from windows' SystemProperties dialog, which was 
>> C:/cygwin64/bin/bash. The /etc/passwd file specifies /bin/bash.
> ----
>     I don't think cygwin sets the Windows SHELL variable in the
> registry.  My SHELL value in the System section is 'C:/Bin/Bash.exe', 
> which isn't a cygwin-looking path (looks like something I set). Are you
> sure you didn't set it in the past sometime?

I suppose I might have set it way back when, but I do wonder why I would 
have. It's interesting that you also have it set; there must be 
something somewhere that prompted its setting. I can't find anything 
online that suggests that cygwin would have set it.

In any event, I still wonder why mintty/login use that rather than 
/etc/passwd.

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