On Feb 29 02:51, Andrey Repin wrote: > 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.
POSIX tools usually expect that system paths are shared between processes. Consider client-server situations with shared files (sockets, fifos) in /tmp. So, no, this is not a generic solution for Cygwin tools. Any user or admin is free to do that locally, of course. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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
