Directory c:\%USERPROFILE% created

[Systemtechnik]

Hello,

i was wandering about strange folders created in the root directory of 
my Cygwin-Enhanced PCs and found out
that everytime i start installer programs from within a cygwin shell, a 
folder called %USERPROFILE% is created
in the base directory of the pc's harddisk.

I found out that if i start a command-shell from windows there is an 
environment variable called "%USERPROFILE%" which
points to the current logged in users directory. In cygwin-shells this 
variable is missing.

So everytime a windows-process tries to access the current users 
profile-dir (to store some ini's or whatever),
the variable does not resolve but will be taken literal, so this 
directory will be created.
In other words: %USERPROFILE% does not point to 
"c:\WINNT\Profiles\username", resp. "%SystemRoot%\Profiles\username" 
like it should.
The effect is that the installer will fail, which is very bad if 
running "silent" setups.

To avoid this i've set $USERPROFILE to the appropriate 
profile-directory for the users in his .profile in cygwin's 
/home/username.
This seems to work, but do i make something wrong ? Is there a better 
way to do this ?
Are there any environment-variables or programs to resolve the current 
users Windows-Profile-Directory, instead of setting
it literally in .profile ?


Regards,

Oliver Geisen
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