On May 6 14:54, John Morrison wrote: > On Wed, May 6, 2009 2:25 pm, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > I just uploaded a new Cygwin 1.7 test release, 1.7.0-47. > > > > What's new in contrast to 1.7.0-46 > > =================================== > > > > - Never use HOMEDRIVE/HOMEPATH to construct a default home directory for > > the current user. The mechanism to evaluate the pathname is now: > > > > - If $HOME is already set in the envirnment, use it. > > - Otherwise, if /etc/passwd contains a non-empty homedir for the > > current user, use it. > > - Otherwise, default to /home/<USERNAME>. > > > > This circumvents a few installation problems and decouples the Cygwin > > homedir by default from the Windows profile directory, which > > especially starting with Vista results in performance problems due to > > the new Explorer behaviour concerning "shared" files. If you want to > > use the Windows profile dir as home dir, set $HOME or tweak your > > /etc/passwd entry accordingly. > > I'll change /etc/profile to reflect the above text. > > Could this result in situations where the skel files arn't copied?
Yes, that was one of the reasons I changed it. The old way to eval the user's HOME dir could result in the skel files not being created because the HOME directory already existed. The non-existance of HOME triggers writing the skel files. Now the skel files typically are created because /home/$USER doesn't exist when bash is started the first time. > > - Set umask to 0022 by default, rather than to 0000. > > /etc/profile has a line > umask 022 > > do you want me to remove/modify it? Keep it in. It doesn't hurt and it's the right place to change the umask if the admin wants another value. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/
