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Re: RFC: 1.7.33 problem with user's home directory
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>
- To: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin at cygwin dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 06:52:03 +0300
- Subject: Re: RFC: 1.7.33 problem with user's home directory
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Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!
>> >> > So the Cygwin home dir
>> >> > is equivalent to the CMD homedir, which is %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%,
>> >>
>> >> Which is covered by "system" setting. Which will either read the location from
>> >> AD or use %HOMEPATH%, if all else fails.
>> >>
>> >> > not %HOMEPATH%/AppData/Roaming/CMD.
>> >>
>> >> I don't see, why not. Forget for a moment about its true location.
>> >> Does it matter, where the files are located, when cygwin is running?
>>
>> > Not when it's running, but a homedir does *not* belong under AppData,
>> > especially not under Roaming.
>>
>> Perhaps, I'm missing something. What meaning exactly you put into "homedir",
>> which seems to preclude any possibility of discussion?
> You apparently didn't read what I wrote in this thread. AppData is the
> wrong spot. Applications are not supposed to use AppData directly,
> rather just the subfolders.
I didn't suggest to use AppData directly >.<
> And the Roaming subfolder is the worst
> of all, given that it contains the roaming profile, which is copied
> over to the client at login time. This is not at all the place for
> any kind of home directory.
Well, now, this is an argument I won't be arguing about.
Any expectations of size of a file or directory have a tendency to be wrong.
(Proved by passwd/group files...)
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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 17.11.2014, <06:49>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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