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Re: Unset TMP/TEMP in profile? (was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-67)
- From: Andy Koppe <andy dot koppe at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 09:51:52 +0000
- Subject: Re: Unset TMP/TEMP in profile? (was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-67)
- References: <4B14573C.3040409@alice.it> <a13b5a590911301753w74ccf298g669e55fc58d36c50@mail.gmail.com> <20091201091515.GC30043@calimero.vinschen.de> <AANLkTimtUQV5LCymquHFe115JL4S9Ld-GUgdLJbetan8@mail.gmail.com> <4D7560B6.9030700@towo.net>
On 7 March 2011 22:48, Thomas Wolff wrote:
>>>>> Indeed. But a question emerges: what does it happen if one starts a
>>>>> Windows
>>>>> application, which needs TEMP or TMP, from Cygwin?
>
> A Windows application is likely to fail on cygpath-transformed values of
> TEMP and TMP anyway, or am I missing something?
> (E.g. is there some implicit back-transformation if cygwin starts a Windows
> application?)
Yep. The following variables are translated to POSIX format on Cygwin
startup and back to Windows format when invoking a non-Cygwin program:
PATH HOME LD_LIBRARY_PATH TMPDIR TMP TEMP
Andy
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