On 8 March 2011 15:03, Andy Koppe wrote: >> 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.
One more thought on this: LANG is set to C.UTF-8 in /etc/profile.d/lang.{c,}sh, which allows users to change or delete that without stopping /etc/profile from being updated. This approach might be appropriate here as well. > 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