On 7 March 2011 17:46, Andy Koppe wrote: > On 7 March 2011 22:13, Ken Brown wrote: >> On 3/7/2011 8:42 AM, Andy Koppe wrote: >>> In the current 3.9-3, TEMP and TMP are unset in ~/.bashrc, as >>> suggested here by Corinna. Thing is, ~/.bashrc is only sourced for >>> non-login shells, yet the default console/mintty/rxvt shortcuts all >>> invoke bash as a login shell. In other words, this change might as >>> well not have been made as far as the vast majority of users are >>> concerned. >> >> I don't think that's right. The default ~/.bash_profile sources ~/.bashrc, >> so the latter does get sourced for login shells. > > You're right. I was under the wrong impression that that was new with > base-files 4.0.
FWIW, I'd prefer to keep the unsetting of TEMP/TMP in ~/.bashrc (i.e. based on user preference) vs. /etc/profile, since I have multiple accounts on one of my machines and with my 'work' account, if I cygstart several different native Windows apps without TEMP/TMP being set they don't play nice. I realize I could write wrapper scripts as per Angelo's suggestion, but I'd prefer not to. As the old adage goes, if it ain't broke, don't fix it... Chris -- Chris Sutcliffe http://emergedesktop.org http://www.google.com/profiles/ir0nh34d -- 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
