> On Mar 8 13:49, David Sastre wrote: >> 2011/3/8, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: >> > 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.
Fair point. That avoids the situation where users with existing home directories don't get a change. On 8 March 2011 13:48, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > I agree. Setting TMP and TEMP to /tmp by default in /etc/profile > should make Cgwin and native apps happy, shouldn't it? Yep. Fingers crossed. 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
