Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > Dead on, thanks! The definitions of tmp and temp in /etc/profile result > in a double definition of the %TMP% and %TEMP% dos variables from the > .Net applications POV and it's too dumb to handle that gracefully.
> So the solution is, either we drop the tmp and temp definitions in > /etc/profile, or old .net apps should be started only after calling > `unset tmp temp' in bash. > Btw., tmp and temp are not preserved this way in tcsh's profile scripts. > So I'm wondering why we do it in /etc/profile. Can somebody give me a > management summary? I guess that was an attempt to fix something that isn't made things right, but left there for years. I would rather propose to solve it the other way around and use /etc/fstab functionality to mount Cygwin's /tmp to current user's %TEMP% folder. I don't know, how would that work in multi-user environment, though. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@freemail.ru) 29.02.2012, <02:46> Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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
