On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 04:06:34PM -0700, Earl Chew wrote: >On 09/09/2010 2:16 PM, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: >>So, for example, if the user logs in interactively while a cron job (or >>another service) is running, /tmp may be mapped differently than if no >>cron job is running, because TMP may be defined differently in the >>service environment. That is not desirable. > >I believe that information is kept in Cygwin shared memory regions on a >per-user basis. I imagine there would other other unwanted >side-effects if this were not the case.
Everyone: If this discussion is going to continue then please move to the Cygwin mailing list. We are not going to be applying the patch so further discussion is not going to be patch related. cgf