From: Linda Walsh <cygwin@tlinx.org>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: what path to use that is not DOS??
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 21:38:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5439A31A.30909@tlinx.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54359A6C.4030204@redhat.com>
Eric Blake wrote:
> On 10/08/2014 01:55 PM, Linda Walsh wrote:
>> I get this message the 1st time logging in via 'rlogin':
>>
>> MS-DOS style path detected:
>> /Windows/System32/cygwin/usr/spool/mail/Bliss/law
>> Preferred POSIX equivalent is:
>> /Windows/System32/cygwin/usr/spool/mail/Bliss/law
>
> Could any prefix of that path be a symlink with questionable contents?
Cygwin can't use any of the normal methods to find my home
and because USERNAME isn't set it tries 'USER'.
So for a mail-spool dir it looks for
/usr/spool/mail/<USER=Bliss\law>
The backslash is in the USER var.
I would say this is a result of logind corrupting
the environment and losing all of windows's expected environment.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-11 21:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-08 19:56 Linda Walsh
2014-10-08 20:11 ` Eric Blake
2014-10-11 21:38 ` Linda Walsh [this message]
2014-10-13 16:26 ` Eric Blake
2014-10-08 20:15 ` Eric Blake
2014-10-08 22:08 ` login -p disabling leads to Windows failures -- as it expects its ENV to remain instact for new processes Linda Walsh
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