It seems that my latest frenzy of setups (the ones that first screwed up, then failed to fix, then at last fixed, coreutils) had some nasty side effects. The first I see is that USER is no longer defined in the environment, at least for bash in mintty. Quite likely one of the bash config files in /etc that is supposed to set it up (at least I assume supposed to!), has been damaged, but has not been rebuilt because setup considers it a "customized" file.
Note that I am 100% sure USER *was* set about 1 week ago, since an app that worked then, now crashes because getenv("USER") return NULL. Hence, 2 (related) questions: 1. Is USER supposed to be set? 2. If yes, by what script or process? Tia -- 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