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Re: base-files (was: [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-47)
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 16:33:00 +0200
- Subject: Re: base-files (was: [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-47)
- References: <20090506132520.GL21324@calimero.vinschen.de> <53c382bdf80256138b18640e139ba328.squirrel@mail.morrison.mine.nu>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On May 6 14:54, John Morrison wrote:
> On Wed, May 6, 2009 2:25 pm, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > I just uploaded a new Cygwin 1.7 test release, 1.7.0-47.
> >
> > What's new in contrast to 1.7.0-46
> > ===================================
> >
> > - Never use HOMEDRIVE/HOMEPATH to construct a default home directory for
> > the current user. The mechanism to evaluate the pathname is now:
> >
> > - If $HOME is already set in the envirnment, use it.
> > - Otherwise, if /etc/passwd contains a non-empty homedir for the
> > current user, use it.
> > - Otherwise, default to /home/<USERNAME>.
> >
> > This circumvents a few installation problems and decouples the Cygwin
> > homedir by default from the Windows profile directory, which
> > especially starting with Vista results in performance problems due to
> > the new Explorer behaviour concerning "shared" files. If you want to
> > use the Windows profile dir as home dir, set $HOME or tweak your
> > /etc/passwd entry accordingly.
>
> I'll change /etc/profile to reflect the above text.
>
> Could this result in situations where the skel files arn't copied?
Yes, that was one of the reasons I changed it. The old way to eval the
user's HOME dir could result in the skel files not being created because
the HOME directory already existed. The non-existance of HOME triggers
writing the skel files. Now the skel files typically are created
because /home/$USER doesn't exist when bash is started the first time.
> > - Set umask to 0022 by default, rather than to 0000.
>
> /etc/profile has a line
> umask 022
>
> do you want me to remove/modify it?
Keep it in. It doesn't hurt and it's the right place to change
the umask if the admin wants another value.
Corinna
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