From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8625 invoked by alias); 13 Jun 2011 14:15:57 -0000 Received: (qmail 8617 invoked by uid 22791); 13 Jun 2011 14:15:56 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from fmmailgate03.web.de (HELO fmmailgate03.web.de) (217.72.192.234) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 14:15:42 +0000 Received: from smtp06.web.de ( [172.20.5.172]) by fmmailgate03.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0609E1922D68B for ; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:15:40 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [217.235.64.22] (helo=[192.168.0.100]) by smtp06.web.de with asmtp (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (WEB.DE 4.110 #2) id 1QW7vX-0000w9-00 for cygwin@cygwin.com; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:15:39 +0200 Message-ID: <4DF61B89.8060505@web.de> Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 14:15:00 -0000 From: Roland Bluethgen User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (Windows/20100228) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: TMP and TEMP get redefined, but I need the original values References: <4DF4FDAC.8010809@web.de> <4DF52918.6050801@web.de> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Sender: calocybe@web.de X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 X-SW-Source: 2011-06/txt/msg00125.txt.bz2 Thorsten Kampe wrote: > * Roland Bluethgen (Sun, 12 Jun 2011 23:01:12 +0200) > > TMP in Cygwin is "user-crafted"? TMP in Windows? TMP in your script? TMP in Windows. >> Also, this approach would defeat the intended purpose of the >> redefinition of TMP (avoiding permissions screwup). Or am I missing >> something here? > > If you're the only Cygwin user on your machine, this is a reasonable > way. Otherwise not. You mean, the permissions problem only surfaces on machines, where multiple users use the same cygwin install? Ok, I'll consider that. For now I resorted to copying the TEMP value to WINDOWS_TEMP on the native Windows side already, and then refer to that backup from the script in question. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple