Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! >> >> > So the Cygwin home dir >> >> > is equivalent to the CMD homedir, which is %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%, >> >> >> >> Which is covered by "system" setting. Which will either read the location >> >> from >> >> AD or use %HOMEPATH%, if all else fails. >> >> >> >> > not %HOMEPATH%/AppData/Roaming/CMD. >> >> >> >> I don't see, why not. Forget for a moment about its true location. >> >> Does it matter, where the files are located, when cygwin is running? >> >> > Not when it's running, but a homedir does *not* belong under AppData, >> > especially not under Roaming. >> >> Perhaps, I'm missing something. What meaning exactly you put into "homedir", >> which seems to preclude any possibility of discussion?
> You apparently didn't read what I wrote in this thread. AppData is the > wrong spot. Applications are not supposed to use AppData directly, > rather just the subfolders. I didn't suggest to use AppData directly >.< > And the Roaming subfolder is the worst > of all, given that it contains the roaming profile, which is copied > over to the client at login time. This is not at all the place for > any kind of home directory. Well, now, this is an argument I won't be arguing about. Any expectations of size of a file or directory have a tendency to be wrong. (Proved by passwd/group files...) -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@yandex.ru) 17.11.2014, <06:49> 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
