On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Luke Kendall wrote:
We found, on a release of Cygwin that's now probably almost a year old, that:
If the /home directory had been created by Cygwin mkdir, and If the /etc/passwd shell specified shell to run was zsh, Then /etc/passwd would not run $HOME/.zprofile
(I.e. after starting a login zsh, you'd have to explicitly source ~/.zlogin or whatever).
But /etc/passwd would source $HOME/.zprofile if /home had been created by Windows Explorer.
I am unable to reproduce this. Are you using the zsh.bat file provided or a custom startup bat file or just running the shell by itself? Please make sure you are using the '-l' option to force a login shell. zsh has greatly changed in a years time. Please consider upgrading to a later release.
We used getfacl to examine the ACLs of directories created by mkdir and directories created by Explorer in detail.
We used both setfacl and Explorer's GUI ACL thing to adjust the ACL until they appeared identical (both to getfacl and to the Explorer GUI ACL viewing thing), but with no joy: there still seemed to be a difference between Cygwin-created directories and Explorer-created ones.
It went into our "to further explore one day" basket.
Perhaps the problem has gone away now. I just thought I'd mention it in case this was interesting information for anyone.
Brian Dessent's comment about setting the ACL for c:/cygwin reminded me of it.
luke
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