> From: Corinna Vinschen > > On Jan 13 09:37, cyg Simple wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Achim Gratz > > > > > > Corinna Vinschen writes: > > > > Which means what for the Cygwin DLL? Dropping TMP/TEMP from the > > > > merged Windows env? It makes sense, I think. Of course, there > > > > will be others... > > > > My process is dependent on the fact that TMP/TEMP have in/out > > rewriting of strings from POSIX to WINDOWS so please leave it as is. > > You're missing something here. What we're talking about is a merge of the
Correct, I was missing this key point. > user's Windows default environment at the time of a user context switch (for > instance, logon via ssh). In that case, "leaving it as is" > today would mean to *drop* TMP/TEMP from the environment, because that's > what ssh does anyway. Ssh drops almost everything from the environment, > before exec'ing the child process. And that's a good thing, because the > environment (e.g. LOCALAPPDATA, USERPROFILE, etc) would otherwise reflect > the settings of the user running the sshd service, not the settings of the > user just > logging in. > Shouldn't these be removed during the startup of sshd? Then the child process would setup the variables during the login process? > The new functionality we're talking about here is that the next Cygwin would > "resurrect" the Windows environment setting for the child process started by > sshd. And these settings would be the one for the user just logging in. This > would help some Windows applications which otherwise choke if these > Windows environment variables are missing. Ack. > > Having said that, TMP/TEMP have the downside of being used by POSIX and > Windows applications alike. Therefore these variables usually are converted > from Windows to POSIX and vice versa on the fly. This is what I was referring to earlier. > > However, whether it makes sense to set TMP/TEMP in a ssh logon session or a > cron session is questionable. Ack. The environment tends to be empty on cron in *nix so I agree. The logon process tends to be what sets the variables, however with Cygwin sshd we need to logon to a new user; would remote desktop protocol provider API help? http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd919947(v=vs.85).aspx -- cyg Simple -- 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
