From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 51252 invoked by alias); 7 Aug 2015 15:16:30 -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 51239 invoked by uid 89); 7 Aug 2015 15:16:29 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-qg0-f53.google.com Received: from mail-qg0-f53.google.com (HELO mail-qg0-f53.google.com) (209.85.192.53) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-GCM-SHA256 encrypted) ESMTPS; Fri, 07 Aug 2015 15:16:28 +0000 Received: by qgj62 with SMTP id 62so51583540qgj.2 for ; Fri, 07 Aug 2015 08:16:26 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.140.99.115 with SMTP id p106mr13549048qge.19.1438960586640; Fri, 07 Aug 2015 08:16:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.0.7] (d27-96-48-76.nap.wideopenwest.com. [96.27.76.48]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 124sm3262270qhr.36.2015.08.07.08.16.25 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 07 Aug 2015 08:16:25 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Cygwin 2.2.0-1 To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <55BFB64C.1010802@towo.net> <20150803192940.GA19315@calimero.vinschen.de> <895515CC-6BB7-41E7-AEA5-30FBBE071153@etr-usa.com> <87wpxac2bj.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <20150805075435.GP17917@calimero.vinschen.de> From: cyg Simple X-Enigmail-Draft-Status: N1110 Message-ID: <55C4CBDB.5090803@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2015 15:16:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20150805075435.GP17917@calimero.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-08/txt/msg00111.txt.bz2 On 8/5/2015 3:54 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > So the idea was: > > set HOME=foo <- ignored, set HOME from passwd DB entry I agree. > set HOME=C:/foo <- same I strongly disagree. In fact I set HOME in the Windows environment expecting Cygwin to map it correctly so that I can have a common HOME for multiple installations of Cygwin. It also allows me to to use %HOME% in Windows scripts. > set HOME=//foo/bar <- same I agree. > set HOME=/foo/bar <- valid, taken I slightly disagree. It boggles Windows scripts that could make use of the variable and would only work for scripts where the working directory device contains /foo/bar. -- cyg Simple -- 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