On 10/1/2012 12:55 PM, Adam Kessel wrote:
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Ken Brown <kbr...@cornell.edu> wrote:
Did you at least try chainging your ${HOME} to somewhere normal and
seeing
what happens? Perhaps SkyDrive has some feature that makes Cygwin crazy.
For example, your cygwin could have inotify listeners on ${HOME} which
could
Yeah, I tried setting ${HOME} to /cygdrive/c and "c:\" and even just
"/" with no change in results.
I don't know if this has anything to do with your problem, but I wouldn't
call any of these settings of $HOME "normal". I think most people leave
$HOME unset, in which case it gets set to /home/username during a Cygwin
session.
At least in my experience, standard cygwin install doesn't create
anything under /home.
In a standard Cygwin install, the script
/etc/postinstall/000-cygwin-post-install.sh runs 'mkpasswd -l -c >
/etc/passwd', which sets the home directory for each user. Normally
this is /home/username, but you can check it by looking at /etc/passwd.
Then the first time you start a shell, /etc/profile creates the home
directory (as specified in /etc/passwd) if it doesn't exist. This
assumes that HOME is not set in the Windows environment. Are you seeing
something different?
Ken
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