From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 60516 invoked by alias); 26 Feb 2016 08:21:55 -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 60479 invoked by uid 89); 26 Feb 2016 08:21:54 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=USERNAME, Moss, namely, universe X-HELO: mail-wm0-f51.google.com Received: from mail-wm0-f51.google.com (HELO mail-wm0-f51.google.com) (74.125.82.51) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-GCM-SHA256 encrypted) ESMTPS; Fri, 26 Feb 2016 08:21:53 +0000 Received: by mail-wm0-f51.google.com with SMTP id g62so62104846wme.1 for ; Fri, 26 Feb 2016 00:21:52 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=zIrSBJPInn2ueRh6L5CELLFZsgd5KI+qivzWK3WOEL4=; b=Kdo4XhD/rFcg0j2GortTqFRvMDKCYacwvqR6l9uC2vuN/0jWiX2ElG8rQgOkVYJ/x8 HxnVShZTJj7Pa2Qsc4/n/IMf/CZs/JPbsjWG+nGb3fKb6y0DqQRSvpKgaBiAM+QfDqsM wzwVr5xW1M2liT7c+IU7ogbKeJPbKFq/bvA5CsJvkWVtDXkNkuqxFAfPqWZevnrGKPrq PvT0Ib+zoYvUPWYFgf2qW7EP96MmH844LOm/WMUK5eaOVcX9+werA83dskj+5GIjAQ+q IskX6j9x7v4iLhc8ZJzPHb68duJWzJeGlf6eBW0kmsis1evQA1/8cHg89EwanJd0SeES ORXQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AD7BkJIy180xexum4pVnc6/WWa/0/TvAkNrDe+FL8wbvyAO/iNmoJdfQUszls9GMGqu4MQ== X-Received: by 10.28.21.21 with SMTP id 21mr1650124wmv.38.1456474910166; Fri, 26 Feb 2016 00:21:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from [172.21.188.188] ([62.154.173.198]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id g3sm11375470wjw.31.2016.02.26.00.21.49 for (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 26 Feb 2016 00:21:49 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: HOME when using both cygwin and cygwin64 To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <56CFD202.9040009@cs.umass.edu> From: Marco Atzeri Message-ID: <56D00B19.209@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 08:21:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <56CFD202.9040009@cs.umass.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-02/txt/msg00399.txt.bz2 On 26/02/2016 05:18, Eliot Moss wrote: > Dear Cygwin-ers -- I solicit suggestions around the following. > For a long time I have used cygwin (32 bit) almost exclusively, > and in that universe my home directory is /home/moss, which in > Windows land is C:\cygwin\home\moss. Now I also have cygwin64 > installed under C:\cygwin64, with another home directory there, > C:\cygwin64\home\moss. When I start a 64-bit bash in a 64-bit > xterm, HOME gets set to /cygdrive/c/cygwin/home/moss. Does > this seem right? It seems counter-intuitive to me -- should > it not be /home/moss, namely C:\cygwin64\home\moss? If that > would be better (I think so), how can I best achieve it? > > Regards -- Eliot Moss > Hi Elliot, The default is /home/$USERNAME https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-mapping-passwdinfo If it is different you modified it in some way -- 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