setup/mkpasswd and HOMEDRIVE/HOMEPATH

Dave Korn dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com
Fri May 8 12:13:00 GMT 2009


Larry Hall (Cygwin Developers) wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:

>> What other pathological case am I missing?
> 
> Actually, I think this covers the general category of home directory
> inaccessibility behavior.  Dave, anything else you see?

  Nope, in fact I wasn't suggesting this needed any change in the $HOME
determination algorithm, just agreeing that your idea from your first post:

> Don't we still need '/' as the ultamite default in '/etc/profile'

... might be nice and give "more Linuxy feeling" behaviour.

    cheers,
      DaveK




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