I looked into a problem reported today, that ~/.profile is not executed if you use Cygwin to create your home directory, instead of using Windows Explorer to create the directory.
The user who reported it and I played around for a while, with getfacl and setfacl to try to find the difference and fix them. While setfacl doesn't seem to allow you to do everything you need (specifically, you can't use it to delete the default group ACL for ~ since you have to specify a group, but there is no group for the default group), ACLs may not be the full explanation anyway. We managed to set the two directories to appear to have identical ACLs according to the Advanced security tab in the Windows Explorer properties - but that still didn't help! Cygwin will only run ~/.profile if "~" was created via Win Explorer. (This seems to be reasonably new behaviour - we've got a lot of users who would have been affected every day, if this had been true for a long time.) My colleague said that he had to run an strace (presumably on bash), to find out why .profile was being run. It appears to stat ~/.profile, look at the ACL, and then close .profile without reading and executing commands from it (in the case where ~ was created by a Cygwin mkdir). We explicitly mount, e.g., D:/home on /home in textmode, if that's any help. I've confirmed this problem on a fresh install. I'm continuing to look into it. It doesn't appear to be a problem for older Cygwins. CYGWIN_NT-5.1 DOYLE 1.5.10(0.116/4/2) 2004-05-25 22:07 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin (That version above seems insensitive to who creates ~. Whereas the one below is sensitive.) CYGWIN_NT-5.1 STOUT 1.5.10(0.116/4/2) 2004-05-25 22:07 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin Hmm. They look the same to me (perhaps because I update my Cygwin quite regularly). Anyway, as I said, I'm just starting to look into this. Feel free to suggest other tests I should try or things I should look into. Regards, luke -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
