On Tue, December 1, 2009 9:15 am, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Nov 30 20:53, Robert Pendell wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Angelo Graziosi >> <angelo.grazi...@alice.it> wrote: >> > Robert Pendell wrote: >> >> >> >> P.S. - On linux (when I tested) TEMP, TMP, and TMPDIR were not set >> and >> >> patch defaulted to /tmp. >> > >> > I noticed that too... >> > >> > Ken Brown wrote: >> >> >> >> That's precisely why I suggested unsetting TEMP and TMP in >> /etc/profile. >> >> Then things should work as in linux. >> > >> > Indeed. But a question emerges: what does it happen if one starts a >> Windows >> > application, which needs TEMP or TMP, from Cygwin? >> > >> > For example, GSview (*) can view ps.bz2 or pdf.bz2 files uncompressing >> them >> > into $TEMP, so it fails if TEMP is not defined, and >> > >> > $ gsview foo.pdf.bz2 >> > >> > is broken! >> > >> > This is only an example of problems which can emerge unsetting TEMP. >> > >> > Ciao, >> > Angelo. >> > >> >> Actually I had thought about that and I found that if you >> intentionally unset all the variables it defaults back to the system >> defined one which is dependent on the current user in Windows. >> Basically what TEMP and TMP is defined to in Windows itself. This is >> like the behavior in Linux. > > I'm wondering if /etc/profile is actually the right place for unsetting > TMP and TEMP. What about etc/defaults/etc/skel/.bashrc instead? It > allows every user simple access to the setting of TMP and TEMP and it > could be seasoned with a user-visible comment.
Unsetting them in the skel .bashrc files shouldn't be a problem to do, but on my system... $ echo $TMP /cygdrive/c/DOCUME~1/morrijr/LOCALS~1/Temp Tue Dec 01 10:40 AM $ unset TMP Tue Dec 01 10:40 AM $ echo $TMP Tue Dec 01 10:40 AM $ They don't get 'reset' to the windows default... but then, I've not really been following this thread. Is that what's wanted? Also, $PATCH and $TMPDIR weren't defined on my system anyway... J. -- 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
