Corinna Vinschen writes: > The weird home dir could be a bug in Cygwin. I can't reproduce it, > but I could think of a reason. Do you have a directory called > /mnt/userdata or an account called userdata in /etc/passwd? Anyway, > I applied a patch which should result in:
No account there with the name "userdata", but there was an empty directory named /mnt/userdata. I've deleted it since the mountpoint will work without it, let's see if the issue comes up again. > $ cd ~\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\? > : No such file or directory. I ended up in /mnt/userdata, but the really interesting issue was if I would then cd into "All Users" for instance, the prompt would show: ~\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\/All Users I had to do a 'cd ~otheruser' to a user that has a home dir in passwd before tcsh forgot about that association, IIRC. I can test that again if it is of any importance. > As you know, Cygwin has to map between Windows SID and POSIX uid/gid > when mapping user accounts. That's what /etc/passwd and /etc/group are > for. If a file belongs to a user for which there's no entry in > /etc/passwd (same for group -> /etc/group), then the uid is set to -1. > ls then prints somthing like this: [...] I don't have any problems with the question marks showing up in directory listings, I would just prefer if a user that has no home directory set in /etc/passwd is not offered as an expansion for '~'. But as there are likely more important problems to solve, if things stay as they arethis is also OK. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ Wavetables for the Terratec KOMPLEXER: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#KomplexerWaves -- 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
