2011/3/8, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: > 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...
As discussed in the ITA thread, one of the goals of base-files-4.0 is not relying in users' config files at all regarding any item that needs to be defined (or undefined :) So if TMP/TEMP has to be unset, or set to /tmp per default, or any other default decided here, that is something to be done in /etc/profile, IMHO. Note that users with a login shell different from bash will be on their own if the job is done in any of the bashrc files (system-wide or user-level). -- 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
