On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Adam Kessel <ajkes...@gmail.com> wrote: >> specified in /etc/passwd) if it doesn't exist. This assumes that HOME is >> not set in the Windows environment. Are you seeing something different? > > Yes. I just installed from scratch -- download setup.exe and specify a > new directory for install; then installed only bash and its > prerequisites. When I run the default cygwin.bat in the new directory, > I get: > > bash-4.1$ pwd > /usr/bin > bash-4.1$ echo $HOME > /home/avk > bash-4.1$ cd > bash: cd: /home/avk: No such file or directory
And in any event, if I then mkdir /home/avk, even in my fresh install, cygwin is still extremely slow. Adam -- 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