The discussion currently going on in the thread http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-11/threads.html#00892
makes me think that the section on environment variables in the user's guide (http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/setup-env.html) could use some expansion. For example, it's not stated explicitly which Windows environment variables get imported into Cygwin (all of them?), nor is there a complete list of variables containing paths that get converted to Unix format. PATH, HOME, and LD_LIBRARY_PATH are mentioned, but TMPDIR, TMP, and TEMP are omitted. I think the last three should be listed, along with the suggestion that users might want to unset them in the Cygwin environment.
I would be willing to take a stab at writing a patch if the developers think this would be useful.
Ken -- 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
