On Tue, December 1, 2009 4:32 pm, Ken Brown wrote: > On 12/1/2009 4:45 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Nov 30 17:04, Ken Brown wrote: >>> The discussion currently going on in the thread >>> >>> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-11/threads.html#00892 >>> >>> makes me think that the section on environment variables in the >>> user's guide (http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/setup-env.html) >>> could use some expansion. For example, it's not stated explicitly >>> which Windows environment variables get imported into Cygwin (all of >>> them?), nor is there a complete list of variables containing paths >> >> Yes, all of them. >> >>> that get converted to Unix format. PATH, HOME, and LD_LIBRARY_PATH >>> are mentioned, but TMPDIR, TMP, and TEMP are omitted. I think the >>> last three should be listed, along with the suggestion that users >>> might want to unset them in the Cygwin environment. >> >> Yes, TMPDIR, TMP, and TEMP are handled the same way as PATH, HOME, and >> LD_LIBRARY_PATH. These six variables are the set of environment >> variables which are subject to path conversion from Windows to POSIX and >> vice versa. >> >>> I would be willing to take a stab at writing a patch if the >>> developers think this would be useful. >> >> That sounds like a nice idea. > > OK, my patch is attached. It anticipates the change to the default > .bashrc file that we've been discussing in the thread cited above.
Hi Ken, While I think it's a good idea to point out that they are (will be) unset in the users .bashrc I'm not sure it's a good idea to tell people where the default (/etc/defaults/etc/skel/.bashrc) is, since this will be overwritten by the base package. If people want to maintain their own set of changes which is used in future that the package does not overwrite /etc/skel/.bashrc is what they should edit. However, since the skel files are only copied *once* ~/.bashrc should be the first point of call. Hope that makes sense! J. -- 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