From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24291 invoked by alias); 11 Nov 2014 09:33:20 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 24281 invoked by uid 89); 11 Nov 2014 09:33:19 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-5.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_20 autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: calimero.vinschen.de Received: from aquarius.hirmke.de (HELO calimero.vinschen.de) (217.91.18.234) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 11 Nov 2014 09:33:18 +0000 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id A54848E12EE; Tue, 11 Nov 2014 10:33:16 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 09:33:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: RFC: 1.7.33 problem with user's home directory Message-ID: <20141111093316.GM2782@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20141110205216.GJ2782@calimero.vinschen.de> <54616884.7010407@secure-endpoints.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="tDYGg60iReQ7u8wj" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-SW-Source: 2014-11/txt/msg00215.txt.bz2 --tDYGg60iReQ7u8wj Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-length: 1466 On Nov 10 23:19, Warren Young wrote: > On Nov 10, 2014, at 6:38 PM, Jeffrey Altman 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 --=20 Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat --tDYGg60iReQ7u8wj Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-length: 819 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJUYdfcAAoJEPU2Bp2uRE+gf8AQAISwcac74n+VcJYrNzKqPc/t 3t+Fz3aWR4iFGZhWsX3+tu89cR8Dfsxc8sTTjVAr2qckknSlE0rF5FOQ6tde1PrJ WFZFCHd3wRhsoZrhWXC3eM/8ON2myxBxn59f9r1vx4zvBA2JcGB2TRaST5jlrHTT xqrIBIRhD0COy62AplHagzXffvn5AnccQZcx2IqXmxCSUw1O5Upf+1lhf53QQOzF CzelgTDWmFlgzeYdhPDfGSp3Hyb+QJrrrCY0A72uAYOYJSGjJPPhvxwwzRF1ZwOV DxqpEYXgLO+b8CnI6Z8t9JETkFL4Xd5f8Is+BYfwJmrSqXRpkdM8/KmzQBY6245M TFi/xrTpAXzIArn7y9Os8VknhlIMps/OkbqeO23TC8iVKHP8mOXtY5zRiGACQywb +12TatsxMmDyofr5F/FsNga3tmQEAj9j0+spQo2En+FlwJuLLph8I7LwLIqFE7yf ihis8EF0QtbZQ4//3S6eJWoRWeOtfoqsIjomkXLaq4ldN/z2TDH3g+K2Dlf66xqt d6TP3VtAgsXnwV9Mm7M/dtgwvExDLWFc72axXmZwlfIBGSq7Iv+m+Plkr+YLPxgU 7rTvxiPO1hTe2pkxCbVk1SgAB0SBdYxqDGmcmd73/hum5Kir8ykkZ+W0w+GOWa6y e9EMhsp3rJtGHrtHwCU4 =i4tX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --tDYGg60iReQ7u8wj--