2009/12/1 Ken Brown: > On 12/1/2009 5:44 AM, John Morrison wrote: >> 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? > > No, they're not expected to get reset. > >> Also, $PATCH and $TMPDIR weren't defined on my system anyway... > > The discussion about "patch" referred to the program /usr/bin/patch, not to > an environment variable. > > TMPDIR is apparently not defined by default in the Windows environment, so > it will usually be undefined unless the user has defined it. I think it > should therefore be left alone. > > The proposal, then, is simply to unset TMP and TEMP in the skel .bashrc > file. There should be some sort of comment for the sake of users who want > those variables to be set for whatever reason. Here's one possibility, but > it may be a little too verbose: > > # TMP and TEMP are defined in the Windows environment. Leaving > # them set to the default Windows temporary directory can have > # unexpected consequences. > unset TMP > unset TEMP > > # Alternatively, set them to the Cygwin temporary directory > # export TMP=/tmp > # export TEMP=/tmp > > # Or use TMPDIR instead > # export TMPDIR=/tmp
If the ability to get back to the Windows settings is considered important, TMP and TEMP could be saved to other variables before unsetting or changing them, for example: export WTMP="$TMP" export WTEMP="$TEMP" Andy -- 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
