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Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 14:12:37 +0300
From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon AT yandex DOT ru>
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Greetings, Andrew Schulman!

>> 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.
>> 
>> Is this expected behavior? (Though I can see why SHELL is there and I'd 
>> need to change it)

> /etc/passwd is deprecated. Since Cygwin 2.5 IIRC, Cygwin no longer looks for it,
> getting information about users directly from the operating system instead.
> Unless you have a special need for it, you should remove it. Same for
> /etc/group.

> In the absence of /etc/passwd, setting SHELL is the right way to set your login
> shell.

One of the right ways, I'd say.
If your aim is the integration of both environments, you MAY set variables,
but if you then start a login shell, they may be voided by the startup scripts.
I would advise using "more other" ways to configure Cygwin, i.e. using SAM DB
comment field.


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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Tuesday, September 27, 2016 14:09:19

Sorry for my terrible english...


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