I totally agree that setting HOME to a relative-path is probably a Bad Idea, and can/should be undefined behavior. As for absolute paths (and whether they should be POSIX, Windows, or either), that's a little less cut and dry for me.
I currently use a ton of scripts of the general form: -------- Cygwin.bat: @echo off @pushd %~dp0 @set TOP=%CD% @popd set PATH=C:\Windows\SYSTEM32;C:\Windows @set HOME=%TOP%\home\%username% @chdir %TOP%\installation\bin @start mintty.exe -e %TOP%\installation\bin\bash.exe --login -i exit -------- for using Cygwin in a user-level installation to my local directory. It's not a big deal to go through these and update them if Cygwin loses its ability to interpret Windows-style HOME paths, but there are probably a lot of users out there who aren't on the mailing list and wouldn't know that this change was happening until their installations broke. So I'm in camp 'leave it as-is', maybe with the exception of disallowing relative paths. :) -Nick -- 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
