On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 08:14:57AM -0700, Karl M wrote: >Perhaps Cygwin should give first priority to /etc/passwd (reversing 1 >and two). This would put things more in the hands of the Cygwin user. > >If Cygwin did not have so many defaults (with the change to 1.7.x) then >it would be less useful to smply drop a cygwin1.dll file into some >random place (by 3PPs) and cause other problems. Does it need to look >anywhere but /etc/passwd (after finding fstab and other stuff)?
You know, I think that's a really good point! How about if we just remove all of the HOME stuff entirely and rely on /etc/passwd, just like, you know...? I've always hated the hoops we jump through trying to get HOME right. Thank you, Karl, for making this suggestion. cgf -- 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/
