On 7 March 2011 22:48, Thomas Wolff wrote: >>>>> Indeed. But a question emerges: what does it happen if one starts a >>>>> Windows >>>>> application, which needs TEMP or TMP, from Cygwin? > > A Windows application is likely to fail on cygpath-transformed values of > TEMP and TMP anyway, or am I missing something? > (E.g. is there some implicit back-transformation if cygwin starts a Windows > application?)
Yep. The following variables are translated to POSIX format on Cygwin startup and back to Windows format when invoking a non-Cygwin program: PATH HOME LD_LIBRARY_PATH TMPDIR TMP TEMP Andy -- 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
