Hi John, On May 6 16:33, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On May 6 14:54, John Morrison wrote: > > 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 $HOME or tweak your > > > /etc/passwd entry accordingly. > > > > I'll change /etc/profile to reflect the above text. > > > > Could this result in situations where the skel files arn't copied? > > Yes, that was one of the reasons I changed it. The old way to eval the > user's HOME dir could result in the skel files not being created because > the HOME directory already existed. The non-existance of HOME triggers > writing the skel files. Now the skel files typically are created > because /home/$USER doesn't exist when bash is started the first time.
after a short discussion on cygwin-developers starting here http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2009-05/msg00001.html I'm wondering if it wouldn't be better to default directly to / if the user's home dir can't be created or accessed. It would also just simplify /etc/profile: --- profile.ORIG 2009-05-08 11:28:55.456869200 +0200 +++ profile 2009-05-08 11:31:41.174558600 +0200 @@ -64,12 +64,7 @@ if [ ! -d "${HOME}" ]; then done else echo "${HOME} could not be created." - - { [ -d "${TEMP}" ] && HOME="${TEMP}"; } || - { [ -d "${TMP}" ] && HOME="${TMP}"; } || - { [ -d /tmp ] && HOME=/tmp; } || - HOME=/ - + HOME=/ echo "Setting HOME to ${HOME}." fi fi -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/
