On Wed, May 6, 2009 2:25 pm, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > I just uploaded a new Cygwin 1.7 test release, 1.7.0-47. > > What's new in contrast to 1.7.0-46 > =================================== > > - Never use HOMEDRIVE/HOMEPATH to construct a default home directory for > the current user. The mechanism to evaluate the pathname is now: > > - If $HOME is already set in the envirnment, use it. > - Otherwise, if /etc/passwd contains a non-empty homedir for the > current user, use it. > - Otherwise, default to /home/<USERNAME>. > > This circumvents a few installation problems and decouples the Cygwin > homedir by default from the Windows profile directory, which > especially starting with Vista results in performance problems due to > the new Explorer behaviour concerning "shared" files. If you want to > use the Windows profile dir as home dir, set $HOME or tweak your > /etc/passwd entry accordingly.
I'll change /etc/profile to reflect the above text. Could this result in situations where the skel files arn't copied? > - Recognize client side cache (holding offline files) as file system > type "csc-cache". > > - Set umask to 0022 by default, rather than to 0000. /etc/profile has a line umask 022 do you want me to remove/modify it? J. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
